[plt-scheme] Re: Experience Using Mz(Dr)Scheme for Numerical Work

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 20 11:03:28 EDT 2005

At Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:35:32 -0700 (PDT), Noel Welsh wrote:
> --- Keith Frost <keithf at amnis.com> wrote:
> > The only way I have found to load the newly 
> > compiled library is to
> > quit DrScheme and start it again.  This goes against the
> > grain of how 
> > DrScheme is supposed to
> > work, so I wanted to ask, is this issue addressed in 299?
> 
> I don't know if 299 has changed how things work, but I
> asked the same question in the 20x days and IIRC the answer
> was it isn't supported as not all platforms provide a way
> to unload libraries.

That's still the case. All platforms provide a way to unload libraries,
I think, but there's no MzScheme protocol in place to make sure that
the run-time system drops all references to the library code.

Matthew



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