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From: "Mikael Djurfeldt" <mdjurfeldt@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removal of SCM_UNBOUND
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:13:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66e540fe0604151513h2c0f0290i1d26b1a5977c054c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66e540fe0604151506x230ebd10vd6d59fc243ce60b7@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/16/06, Mikael Djurfeldt <mdjurfeldt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/16/06, Mikael Djurfeldt <mdjurfeldt@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (define x (if #f #f))
> > (slot-set! quux 'bar x)
>
> Actually, I notice that I read your post sloppily.  SCM_UNDEFINED
> might work, but I think you should check that thoroughly.

While putting together my daugther's Easter egg, I suddenly realized
that the thing that mght bite you is that many parts of GOOPS is
written in Scheme so that, if this UNBOUND value is eqv? to
SCM_UNDEFINED, things go wrong as soon as any Scheme primitive, used
by GOOPS itself, happen to get this value passed in an optional
argument.

I think there *are* instances like this so that making them eqv?
really does introduce a bug.  But even if it doesn't right now, having
them eqv? seems likely to introduce future bugs.

M


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-15 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-15 21:41 Removal of SCM_UNBOUND Clinton Ebadi
2006-04-15 22:03 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2006-04-15 22:06   ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2006-04-15 22:13     ` Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]
2006-04-15 23:26       ` Neil Jerram
2006-04-17  8:21         ` Mikael Djurfeldt

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