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Re: rfc: (ice-9 accumulate)
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: rfc: (ice-9 accumulate) |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:26:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
> Re (ice-9 foo) documentation, i took some pains to fill in the gaps w/
> Guile 1.4.x:
>
> - http://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile/doc/Module-Index.html
>
> Shall i submit those (the relevant ones) as doc patches?
Would be nice, though I think it should be decided on a per-module
basis. There are some modules that it may be worth deprecating and
leaving undocumented, perhaps.
> I have a functional implementation of purely functional FIFO queues
> (F. W. Burton, "An Efficient Implementation of FIFO Queues"), which
> I’d rather push instead of an imperative one.
>
> Note that (ice-9 q) can add to the head of the queue, too. A quick scan
> of <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2000/FoundsCS/queues.ML> doesn't
> seem to show similar functionality.
Yes, because it’s a FIFO. ;-)
> Besides, the first idiom at [0] is about as concise as the one that uses
> this API; in addition, it is likely to be more widely understood than
> the latter. This makes this API unappealing to me.
>
> I'm sorry, i don't follow. What are you referring to as "the latter"?
The ‘accumulate’ API doesn’t lead to more concise code, but it leads to
“non-standard” code, which makes it unappealing to me.
> Hmmm, would it be possible to install (ice-9 accumulate) as is, w/o
> changes, somewhere under ${prefix}/share/guile (perhaps a site/ dir)?
> Would Guile be able to locate and load it?
Setting $GUILE_LOAD_PATH and $GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH appropriately
should be enough.
Thanks,
Ludo’.