Re: When are unused overlays garbage collected?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But what would happen if I (delete-overlay my-overlay), then it gets
>> garbage collected, and then I (move-overlay my-overlay ...)?
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^
> You are still holding a reference to it. It would be an extremely
> impolite action on part of the garbage collector to even look at
> your overlay. I'm sure it would bring about a severe reprimand :)

Oh, the GC will definitely look at it, but it will be discrete, you
won't notice it.


        Stefan