[Ecls-list] compatible gui libraries

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

2011/2/2 crox <linux.hacker at yandex.ru>

> 02.02.2011, 19:13, "Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll" <
> juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>:
> > ECL does have weak pointers and that could be used to implement weak hash
> tables, but it has not been done.
> Sounds solvable... As far as I can see weak pointers are not documented
> yet?
>

No, no documentation, but it is close to trivial.

(ext:make-weak-pointer o) => wp

(ext:weak-pointer-value wp) => o or NIL


> > However, in many cases those dependencies can be worked around by library
> developers. In particular I doubt that trivial-garbage needs weak hash
> tables at all  given that ECL has finalization.
> Does it concerns weak hash tables? I think that it is better to implement
> them, rather than patching cl-gtk2. At least they will be helpful in porting
> some other packages, that depend on them.
>

It would be easier to fix trivial-garbage instead, which is the one
"supplying" weak hash tables to other systems.

Juanjo

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