From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mvo@zagadka.ping.de
Subject: Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:48:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tx1fzyfobh9.fsf@raeburn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207191654.g6JGsfu27015@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:54:41 -0600 (MDT)")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Our goal is to support Scheme, but this doesn't mean we have to be
> purists about how we do it.
True, and I'm not saying that changing Guile in a Lisp-specific way is
the wrong approach. I'm just not convinced it's necessary, and I'm a
bit more hesitant than some others to charge ahead and do it. If we
can do it cleanly and efficiently in "real" Scheme, I think that
would be preferable.
> We can bring Guile "up to the task" by
> adding a facility to add extra slots to a symbol, for
> application-specific purposes. Rather than a kludge for Emacs, this
> will be a general Guile feature with wider usefulness.
I recall thinking once upon a time about using symbol properties.
Guile has object properties in general, implemented through a weak
hash table, but adding a property field to a symbol for performance
may be a reasonable change. (Though I think a property-list field was
taken *out* of some object type a while back; I don't remember if it
was symbols.) Then the extra Lisp-related data can be stored as one
or more properties.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-19 17:48 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
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 [this message]
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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