From: Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SRFI-25 -- multi-dimensional array support.
Date: 22 Sep 2002 21:34:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209222037.NAA28602@onyx.he.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020915162031.A24058@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com> (message from Christopher Cramer on Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:20:31 -0500)
> From: Christopher Cramer <crayc@pyro.net>
> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:20:31 -0500
>
> 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.
I think we should turn it into a module. It has been around for a while
and probably shouldn't be deprecated too rapidly.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-14 19:48 SRFI-25 -- multi-dimensional array support Rob Browning
2002-09-15 2:14 ` Jeff Read
2002-09-15 21:20 ` Christopher Cramer
2002-09-22 20:34 ` Gary Houston [this message]
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