From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: GH replacement proposal (includes a bit of Unicode) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:16:25 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765bs8x5y.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <40812F4B.3080700@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082607569 30095 80.91.224.253 (22 Apr 2004 04:19:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 06:19:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BGVgE-0005yV-00 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 06:19:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGVfu-00064j-TD for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BGVfm-00062e-6o for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BGVfE-0005rP-1X for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:18:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGVdj-0005aK-15 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:16:43 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2097408E; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:16:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE9D3410C7; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:16:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Dirk Herrmann In-Reply-To: <40812F4B.3080700@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> (Dirk Herrmann's message of "Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:21:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3621 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3621 Dirk Herrmann writes: > Alternative 1: > * change the functions in the following way: > scm_to_ (SCM value, int *success) > Instead of signalling an error, *success indicates whether the value > can be represented. If *success is 0, the returned value is > unspecified. If success is NULL, an error is signalled for the case > that the value can not be represented. > Thus, I would prefer either alternative 1 or 2, favoring alternative 1. I had the same concern, and offhand, think I'd probably prefer 1 as well. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel