Re: Finalization function for GC per object in LispWorks.
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org)" <[email protected]>
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On 7 Nov 2025, at 18:10, Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Supposedly one does not need it in Lisp since stuff gets garbage collected and destroyed automatically, however indeed I found myself in situations where I needed to do something to an object when disposing of it (like closing a socket file descriptor, or something) because the GC likely won’t be able to. That's exactly the typical purpose: have a fallback such that the GC can indeed close filehandles for you, if you forget, or free up some other resource. _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html