On Wed 18 Apr 2012 18:08, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes:
>> We need to change to default to consider generic objects as >> eq?-compared prompt tags. > > I agree, but you still couldn't use procedures or integers as prompt > tags if you wanted make-stack to work, because those are special > cases. Yeah, but the whole point of prompt tags is that you can make a new one and know that it is eq?-unique, which is not the case for integers. So integers are not in the general case. It seems useful to add procedures as a special case too, no? > That's why I thought of just changing the interface to make-stack to > specify what you want - it's such a weird restriction that someone > could be bitten by it and have a lot of trouble tracking it down. And > because an argument can mean three different things, code that uses > make-stack is hard to understand (or at least it was for me). It's something of a nasty interface, I agree. But it's been around for a long time; if we can make a minimal change, we should, it seems to me. Want to make a patch? Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
