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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Future of ice-9/slib.scm.
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:09:55 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871x1b58m4.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzjzt7fu.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:01:25 -0800")

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
>
> With respect to some of the *features*, it looks like guile.init
> handles 'random by just adding the two functions that Guile's native
> implementation was missing.

I might have reported that, looks like it's fixed.

> I think this probably means that the
> FIXME in slib.scm has been fixed, and Guile doesn't need to
> inappropriately remove 'random from *features* anymore.

Yep.  (Of course the removal of 'random was entirely appropriate when
there were functions missing.)

> If so, then it should be OK to drop the slib.scm code that
> removes 'array from *features*, but someone else may want to
> double-check.

Sounds likely.  Same story I think, extra bits added.

>   - slib:eval -- should it be using slib-module or
>     interaction-environment?

There's something going on in the whole of guile.init with modules
that I couldn't figure out.  Eg. the aliasing define to define-public.
There's probably a reason for it.


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-20 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16  5:23 Future of ice-9/slib.scm Rob Browning
2005-11-16  7:50 ` klaus schilling
2005-11-16 10:14   ` Andy Wingo
2005-11-17 19:16     ` Rob Browning
2005-11-16 15:38 ` Greg Troxel
2005-11-18  3:56   ` Rob Browning
2005-11-18 11:46     ` Greg Troxel
2005-11-19 14:22     ` Marius Vollmer
2005-11-19 18:09       ` Rob Browning
2005-11-19 21:43         ` Rob Browning
2005-11-19 23:38           ` Marius Vollmer
2005-11-20  1:06             ` Rob Browning
2005-11-20 20:01               ` Rob Browning
2005-11-20 21:09                 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2005-11-20 23:27                   ` Rob Browning
2005-12-09 20:42                     ` Rob Browning
2005-12-11  0:59                       ` Kevin Ryde
2005-12-11  6:08                         ` Rob Browning
2005-12-12 19:39                           ` Greg Troxel
2005-12-13  1:33                             ` Rob Browning

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