The port value is GC'ed, but you have to explicitly close it, or use `custodian-shutdown-all`, to free the underlying resources. See the docs here: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/current/doc/reference/ports.html
Sam On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Vlad Kozin <[email protected]> wrote: > got it. But just to confirm port-values in Racket are subject to gc, right? > --- > Vlad Kozin <[email protected]> > > > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Vlad Kozin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Got it. Thanks Sam. > > > Have a question that I just forgot to ask. There's a reason I have > > (let*-values ..) instead of definitions: > > > There isn't a difference between the code you wrote an what I wrote -- > using `define` inside another context just gets transformed into `let` > or `let-values`. > > Sam > > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
