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From: srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
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Subject: Re: Memory Management in Lisp?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 17:31:56 GMT
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(Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>I note that T has "pools", and that if you have "weak references" it is
>easy to implement them in user code, and if you haven't, it's not _that_
>hard to tell a garbage collector how to flush them.

The circular discussion is an infamous Usenet phenomenon.  (The "Memory 
Management" discussion started when I mentioned T's weak reference and
asked if anything similar would ever be in CL.)

Perhaps you could post some code showing how to implement weak reference
or pools in Common Lisp?