[slime-devel] Re: Clicky things in the REPL.

[Peter Van Eynde]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:25:53PM -0600, Brian Downing wrote:
> Weak references make sense to me, even for CLIM, because I really
> wouldn't want all the objects I've created in the REPL to persist just
> because their presentations still exist in my scrollback.  That
> completely changes the semantics of working at the REPL.  Maybe somebody
> who has worked on the LispM could explain what semantics presentations
> in its listener had with respect to garbage collection.

There is a story of a user nuking the readtable and then recovering it
because several weeks earlier he had printed the value of the readtable.
It was simply a matter of "scrolling up".

Groetjes, Peter

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