great! good to know

On Oct 20, 3:21 pm, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 1:34 pm, cej38 <junkerme...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > This question leads into something that I read in Joy of Clojure (page
> > 161 in the latest MEAP edition):
> > "If you manage to hold onto the head of a sequence somewhere within a
> > function, then that sequence will be prevented from being garbage
> > collected. The simplest way to retain the head of sequence is to bind
> > it to a local. This condition can occur with any type of value bind be
> > it to a reference type or through the usage of let or binding."
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> > I am not sure what this means, but I think it would mean that using
> > let as you do, could cause garbage collection problems.  Thus, it
> > might be better to follow the advice of Stuart and Luc.
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> > Chad
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> > PS. Clarification of the statement from the Joy of Clojure would be
> > helpful.
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> That advice seems stale, given:
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> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/9b4e268b85c20cd6
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> let-bound locals get cleared on last use.
>
> Rich
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