Re: deprecated features

2007-01-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kevin Ryde escreveu: >> I think it is reasonable to let deprecated interfaces live for one stable >> release, > > You yourself have complained about things changed and removed, no? > SCM_STRING_CHARS perhaps ... :-) Perhaps, but I'm for cleaner code. Having to keep deprecated stuff around (and w

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin Ryde
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If not now, is there any sort of timescale for when this is scheduled? Hopefully never for many bits. I think several things have been tagged unnecessarily. If something is not very nice, then by all means shunt it off to a corner of the manual a

deprecated features

2007-01-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kevin Ryde escreveu: >> does this also mean that we can (finally!) summarily throw away anything >> that is marked as "deprecated GUILE 1.7" ? > > The short answer would be no, much too soon. The whole idea of If not now, is there any sort of timescale for when this is scheduled? I think it

Re: [PATCH] experimental lookupcar based coverage testing.

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin Ryde
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (trap-enable 'memoization) > ? My remark on "test_flag" was just that set-test-flag sounds like it could be anything, and could perhaps be more cleanly handled in the debug-options. trap-options would be also ok. _

Re: More i18n

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin Ryde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > The idea is that eventually we could plug in `localeconv' support > transparently, i.e., the user-visible API would remain the same but it > would become capable of using `localeconv' when `nl-langinfo' is not > available (that would work only for mon

Re: More i18n

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin Ryde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > 4. No attempt is made to convert to a different encoding the strings > returned by `nl_langinfo ()'. Good. > 5. High-level procedures for locale-dependent number output are > provided, namely `number->locale-string' and > `monetar

Re: vector-move-left! incorrectly named

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin Ryde
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Should this be fixed, No, that'd be an incompatible change (it's in the manual). Slightly unfortunate, but not the end of the world. ___ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/

Re: Eval options macro: backward compatibility?

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin Ryde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > It's ok for 1.9 to break binary compatibility, Don't do it gratuitously though, just because something will look better. ___ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: Eval options macro: backward compatibility?

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin Ryde
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > does this also mean that we can (finally!) summarily throw away anything > that is marked as "deprecated GUILE 1.7" ? The short answer would be no, much too soon. The whole idea of discouraged etc is really bad. Forcing everyone to change their

Re: [PATCH] experimental lookupcar based coverage testing.

2007-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can you be more specific? According to the URL that you posted, all GUILE > multiline comments are non-GNU conformant, wrt. the opening * on each line. Yes, the `*' opening on each line (many comments in Guile have it, not all), the empty first

Re: Eval options macro: backward compatibility?

2007-01-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> I would like to change this order, and if possible move this out of >> the global namespace. Are there any objections? > > It's ok for 1.9 to break binary compatibility, and it's also probably a > good thing to not export things that are not documented. So I think I

Re: [PATCH] experimental lookupcar based coverage testing.

2007-01-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ludovic Courtès escreveu: > Hi, > > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is now in CVS, along with a couple of other changes. > > Thanks! > > Just a minor note: Could you make sure you follow the GNU style for, > e.g., comments [0]? can you be more specific? According to th

Re: Eval options macro: backward compatibility?

2007-01-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ludovic Courtès escreveu: > Hi, > > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> this order is awkward when a new trap option has to be added. >> >> The problematic thing is that this is exported to GUILE users, through >> >> #define SCM_ENTER_FRAME_P scm_evaluator_trap_table[1].val >