Cryptic comments (was re: non-volatile memory)

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From: mer... Michael Ernst
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 01:08

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I seem to remember a line in the Symbolics garbage-collector source; the
code was long and convoluted, and it contained but a single comment:
	; Gute Nacht, mein Wesen
just before a variable's value was bashed.

Does anyone else have a clearer memory of this?

					-Michael Ernst
					 mer...@theory.lcs.mit.edu

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