2008/9/7 Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> >From my experience, there was a huge improvement in scheme program
> development time when we moved to real type-checking of lists from the
> kind of type-checking you seem to want to re-introduce. It's much
> easier to debug code if you can assume that hangs are not due to
> circular data structures.
Thanks for that data point!
> Having been part of Guile development for some time, it's sad to see
> how much work is put into changing code back and forth due to
> vacillating development goals.
(Oh dear, this seems to be my week for arguing with everybody... :-))
It is? I am not aware of any other recent changes that fall into this
category, are you?
(It is precisely because this change is unique, IMO, in churning code
for no benefit, so I am getting so heavy about it! :-))
> It's apparent how important it is to
> have a written development policy with design decisions and
> motivations.
Apart from the VM work, there has been little development recently
that is big enough to merit or need an upfront design. I would say we
have been mostly focussed for the last year on stability and
cross-platform support.
> Probably a lot of that should also be put directly into
> the code in the form of comments.
Agreed there! The Guile code could use a lot more comments.
Neil
