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Re: GC safety and return values

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Tom Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes:

> GCPRO needs additional tools -- and maybe some code cleanups in Emacs
> (if it hadn't been abandoned) -- but it's not nearly as losing as
> you've made it out to be in the past.

I think GCPRO sucks in emacs, but not necessarily broadly.  What makes
it suck in emacs is the huge number of primitives.  

The present SRFI is rather like Emacs, which makes me share jimb's
nervousness.

Thomas