Hi Ken, As a voice from the the sidelines, I just want to say thanks for all your input!
On Thu 30 Jul 2009 05:23, Ken Raeburn <raeb...@raeburn.org> writes: > Would [open-coding primitives] interfere with possibly blending Scheme > GOOPS code with Elisp someday? Or is the generic support there at a > lower level than this? (E.g., a "marker" object holds a buffer handle, > possibly nil, and an offset that automatically gets adjusted if text > is inserted before it. You can use "(+ 1 marker)" and get back an > integer one greater than the marker's current offset. If markers were > implemented using GOOPS, would this use of "+" work, given the changes > you're suggesting?) This works fine already. If the arguments to the "add" opcode are not fixnums, it dispatches to scm_add(), which has a few more numeric cases; then if none of those cases match, it dispatches to the generic function attached to +. Initially there is no such function, but if there is one, it can be handled there. In this way javascript can specialize on strings, so (+ "hello " "world") => "hello world". Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
