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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 1+ and 1- in C
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:30:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873btyus5g.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504101529.19592.bruce.korb@gmail.com> (Bruce Korb's message of "Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:29:19 -0700")

Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Shouldn't the name for the subtraction code be ``less one''

The C name?  That can be anything.

> or the alias be ``-1+''

I guess that was r2rs, or something.  It's gone in 1.8.

I'm only looking at moving a bit of what's already in boot-9.
Personally I quite like 1-.

> You are decrementing, yes?

Yep.


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-10 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-10 22:17 1+ and 1- in C Kevin Ryde
2005-04-10 22:29 ` Bruce Korb
2005-04-10 23:30   ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2005-05-24 17:03 ` Marius Vollmer

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