From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:56:00 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207181456.g6IEu0J25108@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tx1adorvz5m.fsf_-_@raeburn.org> (message from Ken Raeburn on Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:58:13 -0400)
My approach last time around was to add a SCM field to most of the
"interesting" data types (symbol, misc, and vectorlike), fill it in
when the object was created, and make XSETFOO just copy the value out.
Rather crude, and wasteful of storage space, but it got the job done,
and it minimized the intrusion in random Emacs code and kept it
running with both object representations.
I don't think this method makes real sense, because if an object is
going to have the scheme object header at all, we may as well use that
object header universaly throughout Emacs as the way to reference the
object. It would cost no extra storage, and it would be simpler.
The place where having this extra baggage is really unfortunate is for
the small data types--symbol and Lisp_Misc. Perhaps Scheme needs
a new facility for small user data types.
Why can't Guile's symbols be used as Lisp symbols?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-18 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-25 14:50 ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much Juanma Barranquero
2002-06-25 15:06 ` D. Goel
2002-06-25 15:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-06-26 22:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-27 17:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-06-27 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-02 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-02 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-02 15:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-06-29 8:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-02 15:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-02 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-03 11:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-03 21:32 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-04 5:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-04 7:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-04 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-04 11:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-06 10:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-04 11:02 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-04 12:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-04 12:19 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-04 13:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-04 14:02 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-04 14:00 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-04 15:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 2:58 ` emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much) Ken Raeburn
2002-07-17 7:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 9:11 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-18 14:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-18 21:45 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-18 14:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-18 20:13 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-19 13:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-19 16:24 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-19 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-19 17:51 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-18 14:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-07-18 19:54 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-19 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-19 12:56 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-19 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-19 14:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-19 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-19 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-19 17:48 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-19 18:25 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-20 0:35 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-20 12:00 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-21 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-19 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-04 19:07 ` ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much Henrik Enberg
2002-07-05 0:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-05 11:15 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-07-05 10:48 ` Richard Stallman
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