<para>&SBCL; provides additional garbage collection functionality not
specified by &ANSI;. Weak pointers allow references to objects to be
maintained without keeping them from being GCed. And "finalization"
-hooks are available to cause code to be executed when an object is
+hooks are available to cause code to be executed when an object has been
GCed.</para> <!-- FIXME: Actually documenting these would be good.:-| -->
<para>&SBCL; supports Gray streams, user-overloadable CLOS classes
whose instances can be used as Lisp streams (e.g. passed as the
-first argument to <function>format</>).</para>
+first argument to <function>format</>). Additionally, the
+bundled contrib module <interface>sb-simple-streams</interface>
+implements a subset of the Franz Allegro simple-streams proposal.</para>
<para>&SBCL; supports a MetaObject Protocol which is intended to be
compatible with &AMOP;; present exceptions to this (as distinct from
-current bugs) are:
+current bugs) are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>the abstract <classname>metaobject</> class is not
present in the class hierarchy;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>the system-supplied <property>:around</> method for
<function>compute-slots</> specialized on
<classname>funcallable-standard-class</> does not respect the
- requested order from a user-supplied primary method.
+ requested order from a user-supplied primary method.</para>
+</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<para>&SBCL; (as of version 0.8.3, on Linux x86 only) supports a
fairly low-level threading interface that maps onto the host operating
-system's concept of threads or lightweight processes.
+system's concept of threads or lightweight processes. </para>
<sect3><title>Lisp-level view</title>
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