Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/12/18 Yi DAI : > (maybe not, according to Linas Vepstas) Sorry, I had misunderstood the nature of your email. Please disregard my earlier comments. -linas

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-18 Thread Yi DAI
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:44 AM, parawaiter wrote: > 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 ?) > Y

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread parawaiter
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 call

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Keith Wright
> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > >> > >> Yi DAI writes: > >> > >>> I'd like to suggest the following name convention > >>> which complies to names commonly found in > >>> assembly languages. > >>> > >>> > >>>    - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Linas Vepstas writes: > 2009/12/17 Ludovic Courtès : >> Hi, >> >> Yi DAI writes: >> >>> I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names >>> commonly found in assembly languages. >>> >>> >>>    - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*. >>>    - Replace > (greater than) wi

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/12/17 Ludovic Courtès : > Hi, > > Yi DAI writes: > >> I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names >> commonly found in assembly languages. >> >> >>    - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*. >>    - Replace > (greater than) with *_gt*. > > Changing conventions would

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Yi DAI writes: > I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names > commonly found in assembly languages. > > >- Replace < (less than) with *_lt*. >- Replace > (greater than) with *_gt*. Changing conventions would mean changing the API or maintaining functio

A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-16 Thread Yi DAI
Hi, all, I read the following in "5.1 Overview of the Guile API" of the reference manual. - Replace <= (less than or equal) with _leq. - Replace >= (greater than or equal) with _geq. - Replace < (less than) with _less. - Replace > (greater than) with _gr. I'd like to suggest the follo