From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Lord Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Threads and asyncs Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200209022336.QAA08304@morrowfield.regexps.com> References: <87it1oglmq.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <200209022124.OAA07625@morrowfield.regexps.com> <87k7m43si7.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <200209022324.QAA08246@morrowfield.regexps.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031009012 6908 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2002 23:23:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:23:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lord@regexps.com Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17m0Xa-0001nJ-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 01:23:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17m0Z8-0007zY-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17m0Ys-0007y9-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17m0Yq-0007xw-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from 1cust167.tnt13.sfo8.da.uu.net ([63.10.241.167] helo=morrowfield.regexps.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17m0Yp-0007xs-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:24:48 -0400 Original-Received: (from lord@localhost) by morrowfield.regexps.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA08304; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lord@morrowfield.regexps.com) Original-To: rlb@defaultvalue.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200209022324.QAA08246@morrowfield.regexps.com> (message from Tom Lord on Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:24:35 -0700 (PDT)) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1231 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1231 > If Guile never budges on the stack issue, I would still be > inclined to see it as an implementation optimized for cases > when the C stack is used heavily. And, not to reopen old wounds or restart old fights --- RnRS is plainly wrong on (eq? #f '()) .... that's the biggest obstacle. Indeed, after resuming hacking emacs lisp in recent history, I'm starting to think that the old CL bit of: (car nil) => nil (cdr nil) => nil is also not a bad idea. "Protective errors" are often wrong. -t _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel