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Re: guile-emacs GC (was special forms)
> Seriously, I think we have to make some restrictions on Lisp
> programs so they don't keep Scheme values. I think people of
> Guile Emacs do not want to write new programs in Lisp, so it's
> not a problem. If people of Lisp want to use Guile's features,
> it is the time to move to the Guile-based Emacs.
Honestly, this doesn't seem like a good idea. There are zillions of
useful Emacs Lisp functions that are part of Emacs right now, and it
would be a fatal mistake to push a design which doesn't encourage the
Lisp and Scheme worlds to share data freely.
The best approach is to change Emacs Lisp to use Guile objects. That
is, Fcons (if I remember correctly) should call SCM_NEWCELL, and so
on. That way, the two languages operate on a common GC, and can share
data freely.
Ken Raeburn has already done a lot of this work. You really should
look at his patches.