diff --git a/doc/guile-hackers.txt b/doc/guile-hackers.txt index d7593822be..df53925cc3 100644 --- a/doc/guile-hackers.txt +++ b/doc/guile-hackers.txt @@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ either end. Guile supports a superset of R4RS (the Scheme standard). For initial experimentation, you can use Guile as an interactive Scheme shell to play around with the system. -SLIB is a library for Scheme implementations (including guile) -that implements a large collection of useful data structures -and algorithms. - FIXME: Starting gnucash as a guile shell. .. While the Guile documentation (in info format) explains @@ -50,18 +46,6 @@ FAQs, online copies of the Scheme standard (which is actually quite readable and useful), and pointers to web tutorials and other resources. -g-wrap ------- - -Note: gwrap has been replaced by swig and dropped completely in -SVN-trunk on 2006-10-20 and for gnucash-2.2.0. - -(Old info: g-wrap is the tool used to automate the wrapping of C -functions to make them callable from the guile code. g-wrap is -now maintained by Rob Browning and is available from -ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/g-wrap ) - - Garbage collection: ------------------- @@ -97,14 +81,10 @@ use it. The moral of this story is that if you need to have the C side ferret away a scheme item for later, you must also keep at least one reference to that item on the guile side until the C side is finished -with it. I believe that the guile people have recently come up with a -nice general solution to this problem, but until that's generally -available, there are a number of ways you can solve this. - -If nothing else, you can just create a global hash on the guile side, -place the object in question in the hash table, and then have the -C-side delete that item from the hash when it's finished with it. +with it. +You can protect an object using scm_gc_protect_object. When you're done +with it you can release it using scm_gc_unprotect_object. Guile Interrupts: -----------------