On Tue 25 Mar 2014 21:21, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> However, it could perhaps break code >> >> In what way? > > ‘variable?’ would suddenly match any SRFI-111 box.
I would be OK with this FWIW -- eventually we could deprecate variable? (though that would happen later in 2.2 I would think). >> Perhaps we are miscommunicating -- I would change what we currently call >> "variables" to be "boxes". WDYT? > > You mean just the name, or making them SRFI-111 boxes? I mean making SRFI-111 boxes the same as Guile variables, and renaming Guile variables to be "boxes", and eventually deprecating the old variable names. > Anyway, I don’t feel strongly about this particular point, but I think > we’ve been deprecating a lot lately. Have you noticed it in your non-core code? (Out of curiosity.) Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
