Re: [Chicken-users] read-byte, etc.

[felix winkelmann]

On 4/20/06, Hans Bulfone <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> - the compiler normally assumes that +, -, read-char, etc. are not globally
>   redefined and resolves the bindings at compile time
> - the numbers egg can redefine +, -, etc. because code that uses it is
>   compiled with (declare (not standard-bindings + - ...))
> - read-char can be redefined in a syntax-case module that imports the
>   utf8 module because it creates a local binding.
> - but importing the utf8 module into the toplevel should not be able
>   to change read-char for code compiled with usual-integrations,
>   even if that code is loaded after the utf8 module is imported.

The usual-integrations declaration only replaces _certain_ standard
(and some non-standard) procedure-calls with certain internal
ones, but not all.

> somehow i don't feel comfortable with using ##sys#... procedures when
> not really needed, so i'm not using it so far.

That's sensible. The internal procedures and their interface may change
from release to release.


cheers,
felix