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From: Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>
To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi>
Cc: guile-emacs@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: guileapi.x problems [patch]
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:55:00 -0000
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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

> I think it would be cleanest to put #ifndef SCM_MAGIC_SNARFER
> around the #include: we don't want the behavior of guile-snarf to
> depend on the previous contents of *.x.  After this, the Makefile
> could be changed to use a temporary file.

Do you know why the Guile team doesn't do that?  We might better
ask them before making this change.

> Although the current version of guile-snarf defines
> SCM_MAGIC_SNARFER, that macro doesn't seem to be documented
> anywhere so relying on it is a bit risky.  If the Guile team
> promises they won't remove this macro, all is well.  Such a
> promise should be written down in the manual so that their
> grandchildren won't forget it.  ;-)

I believe they won't :)  But you could suggest them to do so.