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Re: GRM questions
From: |
Dirk Herrmann |
Subject: |
Re: GRM questions |
Date: |
Thu, 31 May 2001 09:56:37 +0200 (MEST) |
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Martin Grabmueller wrote:
> > Envelope-to: address@hidden
> > X-Authentication-Warning: marvin.ida.ing.tu-bs.de: dirk owned process doing
> > -bs
> > From: Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:14:54 +0200 (MEST)
> >
> > Huh, well, they are used all over guile, but IMO, there's a lot of strange
> > things going on there. Who's afraid of SCM_VALIDATE_SUBSTRING_SPEC_COPY,
> > SCM_VALIDATE_INUM_MIN_DEF_COPY, SCM_VALIDATE_NONEMPTYLIST_COPYLEN,
> > SCM_VALIDATE_NULLORROSTRING_COPY? I am :-)
>
> SCM_VALIDATE_SUBSTRING_SPEC_COPY saved my life when I implemented
> SRFI-13, where I needed it's functionality a billion times (well, 86
> times, actually).
I understand that this is comfortable, but that doesn't mean that it
should be part of the API. Nothing speaks agains putting such
funcionality into a local macro if the pattern is used often in a file.
Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann