On Dec 17, 2009, at 20:05 , Keith Wright wrote: > Currently, the variables that Scheme programmers know as > |<| and |>|, are called in C _less and _gr.
This probably also applies to things like string<? -> string_lt() (string_lt_p ?) > Propose to rename the C variables so that |<| and |>| > are called in C *_lt* and and *_gt*, respectively. > > I'm not sure whether the asterisks are meant to > be part of the name. I think that is an artifact of a multipart mime font-change. > This seems good to me; what > was the programmer thinking that made it seem > good to have asymmetric identifers for > |<| and |>|? The names .LT. and .GT. go back > to the Fortran of the late fifties. I don't see how _less and _gr was introduced with any consideration either, except just having to have a name as they were implemented. > Whether it is worth the trouble to change, > I don't know. That's the question, and I'll leave that to you guys. lt, gt, are universally known. Even /bin/sh 'test' uses this. And as far as scheme implementations go, I've probably found mine (for my kind of C-integrated usage) in chibi-scheme, so disregard my opinion as anything but an outsider. I'm just saying that I think the original poster has a point and his suggestion is what I would expect to find when searching for the C-equivalents of the given scheme predicates... Best regards, Lars J
