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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: guile 1.6 conversion
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030715190518.GG10371@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307151857.LAA20731@casey.transmeta.com>

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Hi -

dje wrote:
> The biggest task in converting to guile 1.6 is handling the
> stricter type checking on string operations. [...]
> Let's keep the notion of being able to freely pass symbols to
> a "string-append"-like function, but just give it a different name
> like strsym-append or some such.

That's fine.
(Can a scheme macro be made conditional on the symbol-ness of its
actual arguments, so that this strsym-append thingie is a macro
rather than a full function?)

- FChE

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-15 18:57 Doug Evans
2003-07-15 19:05 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

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