From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Cramer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: SRFI-25 -- multi-dimensional array support. Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:20:31 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020915162031.A24058@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com> References: <87elbwwdwu.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032124812 24457 127.0.0.1 (15 Sep 2002 21:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 21:20:12 +0000 (UTC) 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 17qgoL-0006MK-00 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 23:20:09 +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 17qgoY-0002m3-00; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17qgo2-0002gP-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17qgnx-0002fi-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from pyro.net ([207.7.10.6] helo=kiwi.pyro.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17qgnv-0002fb-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 25234 invoked by uid 8610); 15 Sep 2002 21:20:31 -0000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87elbwwdwu.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>; from rlb@defaultvalue.org on Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 02:48:33PM -0500 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:1351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1351 On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 02:48:33PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > 2) Is our array type close enough to be used as the underlying data > type for srfi-25? > 3) How should we handle the API and type overlap > 4) In the *long* run do we try to merge our API with that of the > srfi or keep both APIs/datatypes and keep them separate? I remember someone saying before (Marius, I think) that we should scrap our current uniform array code in favor of srfi-4, because the array code we have is a huge pain to deal with. I think this applies to multidimensional arrays as well, but I'm not so sure I'd want to use srfi-25. In any case, the array code in Guile is a huge mess and I'd be in favor of deprecating it, especially since there seem to be good alternatives. -- Christopher Cramer "Gore would have finished ahead by the barest of margins had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount." -- Associated Press, 9/6/2002 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel