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From: "Glenn Michaels" <gmichaels@Safe-mail.net>
To: 24102@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24102: Use guile variable objects as SRFI-111 boxes.
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 05:21:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <N1O-EYuO2QhvA6@Safe-mail.net> (raw)

Currently, guile's (srfi srfi-111) module ("mutable boxes") provides
an implementation based on records with a single value field.

Wouldn't it make more sense to re-export the functions make-variable,
variable?, variable-ref and variable-set! from the guile core as box,
box?, unbox and set-box! respectively?

These functions have the same signatures and the same semantics as
required by the SRFI-111 spec., and they appear to be significantly
faster than the current record-based implementation.

Moreover, SRFI-111 boxes and guile variable objects are clearly
semantically the same thing. It's bad enough having two names for the
same thing, without having two implementations too.

Reference: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-111/srfi-111.html





             reply	other threads:[~2016-07-29  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-29  9:21 Glenn Michaels [this message]
2016-08-02 10:25 ` bug#24102: Use guile variable objects as SRFI-111 boxes Glenn Michaels
2016-08-04 20:59   ` Andy Wingo
2016-08-05  4:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-05  4:37   ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-18 13:07 ` Glenn Michaels
2016-08-18 16:14   ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-31  9:03     ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-01  8:51       ` Andy Wingo

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