Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > I had a realization yesterday, that our documentation misses the point > of guardians. Guardians exist to allow finalization of resources > without introducing concurrency. However if you pump a guardian from > the after-gc-hook, as recommended by "GC Hooks" in the manual, a > guardian is simply a finalizer, implemented in a roundabout way. > > Food for thought! I could have told you that. I already implement an add-finalizer! in roundabout way using guardians :P
-- Ian Price "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
