Hi, Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >> `struct-copy' must check fields permission > > I didn't want to do that. I think it has to be done, otherwise that'd just make field permissions useless. >> `o' fields cannot be copied I think. > > I had in mind just bitwise copying them. But I guess that slightly > defeats the purpose of such fields, and could conceivably be a bit evil. Indeed. I believe it should be an error to try to copy a struct with such fields. > I might rethink it as just a record-copy, since plain records have none > of those questions. But that'd need at least `record?' down in C code > for a type check, so it might have to wait until most of the record > stuff is in C. Better leave records as Scheme code IMO. If you add the above rules to `struct-copy', then you will be able to `(define record-copy struct-copy)' and it will actually work because records have no opaque fields. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
