From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
To: "Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se
Subject: Re: Patch to make guile-gtk work with upcoming guile-1.4
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:47:00 -0000
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"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> I'd much prefer that this function not be depracated... notice all of
> the redundancies and potential maintenance headaches below.  People
> *will* cut and paste from one section to another, change the *_hook in
> the first line, and forget to change it in later lines, resulting in a
> hard-to-find and nasty bug.

I don't think this will cause much problems, and, actually, I think
the standard interface (scm_make_smob_type/scm_set_smob_xxx) is easier
to read and intuitively understand.

But we'll not let that debate delay release.  Instead we prepare for
the eventuality that it will be removed, and don't bring it forward as
a suggested way to code in this release.