Re: Pre-Scheme static allocation

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, at 11:54 PM, Michael Sperber wrote:
> 
> Thomas Hintz <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > What do you mean by a 'regular buffer'? Do you mean like 'make-string'?
> > If so, is there another way to do something like that besides using
> > make-string, make-vector, or allocate-memory? Those appear to always use
> > a form of 'alloc' which ideally I wouldn't have to rely on. Or am I
> > missing something entirely?
> 
> Ah, I'm beginning to understand: There's no way to allocate a writeable
> buffer "on the stack" in PreScheme - Scheme has no way to restrict the
> extent of that buffer.  Sorry ...

Ah, that makes total sense. Thanks very much for the help.