Re: [racket-users] weak references and quoted values

2017-09-07 Thread Matthew Flatt
That's correct. Quoted values get GCed when code gets GCed, such as when you run a module to completion in a namespace and don't retain the namespace, or when a quoted value is sent to `eval` and not part of a definition. At Thu, 7 Sep 2017 17:31:26 -0700, Alexis King wrote: > My understanding is

Re: [racket-users] weak references and quoted values

2017-09-07 Thread Alexis King
My understanding is that quoted values are effectively interned, so they’ll never be garbage collected as long as the code containing the quoted expression is loaded. Here’s a program that hints at this: (define (make-quoted-value) '(1 . 2)) (eq? (make-quoted-value) (make-quoted-va