>>>>> "Paul" == Paul A Steckler <steck@cs.rice.edu> writes: Paul> Yes, exposing the reference-counting mechanism Paul> at the Scheme level is ugly, but I can't think of a better Paul> way to deal with this problem. I'm probably being naive, but what about using a finalizer to decrement the count? -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla