From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: SZAVAI Gyula Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: generic * and 0 Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:07:36 +0100 Message-ID: <45757D28.3050404@ludens.elte.hu> References: <456DCA43.6030705@ludens.elte.hu> <878xhr4cgj.fsf@zip.com.au> <66e540fe0612011222n42a0e62ai1250ff67ae801c93@mail.gmail.com> <87irgv2sj6.fsf@zip.com.au> <87zma433s7.fsf@zip.com.au> <66e540fe0612041026n3a6ca3f5ye46e775becdce611@mail.gmail.com> <87wt57ky8z.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165327769 23660 80.91.229.10 (5 Dec 2006 14:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 05 15:09:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Graz3-0003HD-KS for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:09:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Graz3-0000T6-5S for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Graz0-0000Sw-6c for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:09:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Grayz-0000Se-Bj for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Grayz-0000Sb-7e for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [157.181.1.138] (helo=mx3.mail.elte.hu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Grayy-000670-I6 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbox1.caesar.elte.hu ([157.181.151.157]) by mx3.mail.elte.hu with esmtp (Exim) id 1GraxE-0007ix-NN from for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:07:28 +0100 Original-Received: from [145.236.118.95] (line-118-95.dial.net.telekom.hu [145.236.118.95]) by mailbox1.caesar.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07D54C00A for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:07:44 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU) Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Original-To: bug-guile@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87wt57ky8z.fsf@zip.com.au> X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.9 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.9 required=5.9 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.7 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3414 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde wrote: > "Mikael Djurfeldt" writes: > >> (Not entirely sure that the common zero is a good idea, but I tend >> to think so.) >> > > I suppose it's a question of whether "*" should do that, or leave it > up to the application. > I think there are 3 solution: 1, make * really generic (non-associative, no 0, no 1) 2, make * non-generic 3, document this strange behaviour But present undocumented half-genericity is annoying. Thanks s _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile