On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Josef Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In guile's info page, all I can find is chapter 22.5, but this seems > > to describe something much more general than what defstruct would do. > `defstruct' as described in this document is something specific to some > Scheme implementation. The chapter you saw in Guile's manual is another > non-portable way to define structures, in Guile this time. > > The most portable way to define structures is to use SRFI-9: > > http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html > > It is available in Guile using "(use-modules (srfi srfi-9))" or > "(require-extension (srfi 9))" (the latter being the portable way to get > the portable "structures" :-)).
Thanks for the explanation, Ludovic! I'll go and try to read/understand srfi-9. BTW: Why do people teach newbies non-portable things in their tutorials? _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
