From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Marton Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: and-map and or-map not documented in the manual Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:22:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <87zlldu5kl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Gregory Marton NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223569758 3095 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 16:29:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 18:30:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KnyM2-0002MK-O4 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:27:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnyKy-0001bJ-Qv for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnyHp-0008NG-UR for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnyHo-0008LA-0l for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43229 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnyHn-0008Kj-EU for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from outgoing.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.2.149]:60869) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KnyHc-00043w-Fu; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from samoa.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.44.118]) by outgoing.csail.mit.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KnyHX-0005b8-F1; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from gremio (helo=localhost) by samoa.csail.mit.edu with local-esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KnyHX-0006PO-D8; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zlldu5kl.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:4041 Archived-At: >From a user's perspective, reading code containing these functions, it can be confusing that they're undocumented and not defined in the user portion of the code. Either deprecating them or documenting them with the caveats mentioned would be better than the status quo. I would prefer to document them, because it's less work, and because the pointer into srfi-1 would help new users find other tools they might need. Can I be helpful in making that happen? Thanks, Grem > Hi, > > Andy Wingo writes: > >> So ideally instead of documenting them, if you're with me, we should >> deprecate them, replacing them with their srfi-1 counterparts. > > I'm with you, but I think the status quo is safer, so that code from the > late 90's can run forever with Guile (hmm, how convincing is that?). > > Thanks, > Ludo'. > > > > -- ------ __@ Gregory A. Marton http://csail.mit.edu/~gremio/ --- _`\<,_ . -- (*)/ (*) Confidence is the feeling you have until you understand. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~_~~~_~~~~~v~~~~^^^^~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~++~~~~~~~