Re: [PATCH] Fix the R6RS exact-integer-sqrt and import into core guile

2011-04-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> Why do you think the C interface should be kept internal? Most of the >>> core arithmetic procedures provide public C interfaces. Why should >>> exact-integer-sqrt be treated differently? >> >> Because: >> >> 1. I th

Re: [PATCH] Fix the R6RS exact-integer-sqrt and import into core guile

2011-04-09 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > OK. I was thinking that I’d use C when dealing with fixnums or floats, > and let Guile manage bignums and similar—in which case writing C doesn’t > seem to help much. > > Do you think there are use cases for using this interface from C? It is a fair questi

Re: [PATCH] Fix the R6RS exact-integer-sqrt and import into core guile

2011-04-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark! Mark H Weaver writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> OK. I was thinking that I’d use C when dealing with fixnums or floats, >> and let Guile manage bignums and similar—in which case writing C doesn’t >> seem to help much. >> >> Do you think there are use cases for using th

Broken Mail Transport Agent at stelco.com.mv

2011-04-09 Thread Mark H Weaver
To the administrator of stelco.com.mv's mail system: Your mail transport agent (MTA), aka mail server, is broken. Can you please tell us what software you use? Specifically, your MTA apparently sends delivery status notifications (DSNs) to the address listed in the "From:" header. This is very w

Re: Broken Mail Transport Agent at stelco.com.mv

2011-04-09 Thread Mark H Weaver
postmas...@stelco.com.mv writes: > This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. > > Delivery to the following recipients failed. > >shi...@stelco.com.mv Can one of the guile-devel administrators please disable delivery to the address above, as would presumably have been