From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: bytevector docs -> compound data types? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:42:34 +0100 Message-ID: <873a9oue91.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <86zlbxb6jb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245969781 28621 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 22:43:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 26 00:42:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MJxef-00028g-I5 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:42:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJxee-0005i8-QJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJxeY-0005i0-3b for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJxeT-0005ho-Jq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48538 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJxeT-0005hl-Dz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:42:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:48092) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJxeR-00071M-3w; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647401F701A; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:42:36 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D8638021; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:42:34 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu\, 25 Jun 2009 22\:40\:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8768 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Another option of course is to not classify data types by "simple" or > "compound", but some division is necessary. > > Perhaps our master wordsmith Baron von Jerram has a perspective :) Huh? Where did that `Baron' come from? But anyway... I don't have a strong opinion here, but - I think that bytevectors go with other kinds of vectors more closely than they go with strings - I think we could benefit from discarding the Simple vs Compound division - i.e. combine everything into a single `Data Types' section. `Pairs' could be much nearer the top of the combined list than it is now. Regards, Neil