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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New syntax: (: MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:31:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871xs8qkxz.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3llqhxwrl.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "15 Nov 2003 19:22:06 +0000")

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

>     >> OK.  One other specification query: will `:' only work if the relevant
>     >> binding is exported?
>
>     Marius> Yes, I think that's more disciplined.
>
> For most uses I agree, but what about debugging (or introspection)
> code, [...]

Yes, that would be useful as well.

> Obviously a `:'-like macro for non-exported bindings could be
> implemented separately (I think it just needs resolve-module instead
> of resolve-interface), but I wonder if it's worth designing an
> interface now that neatly covers both possibilities.
>
> For example:
>     (: MOD-NAME VAR-NAME)  -> look up from exported bindings only
>     (: MOD-NAME VAR-NAME internal) -> look up from all bindings

Hmm, I would find it more natural to have a separate macro, like

      (:: MOD-NAME VAR-NAME)

where '::' would be the (to me) obvious choice of name.
Unfortunately, with (read-set! keyword 'prefix) that name would be a
keyword...

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-13 18:12 New syntax: (: MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME) Marius Vollmer
2003-11-13 19:47 ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-13 20:58   ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-14 21:04     ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-15 15:19       ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-15 19:22         ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-16 17:31           ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2003-11-16 18:20             ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-16 18:38               ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-16 20:36                 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 20:18                   ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-17 21:34                     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-16 20:28               ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-14 22:09 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-11-15 15:10   ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17  2:00     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-11-17 14:41       ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-16  8:02 ` Dirk Herrmann
2003-11-17 14:44 ` New syntax (@ MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME) committed Marius Vollmer

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