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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should we add scm_to_pointer, or just use SCM_POINTER_VALUE?
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:59:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa52sttk.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d39zdqhd.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:20:30 -0500")

On Wed 01 Feb 2012 07:20, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Should we add 'scm_to_pointer'?  For most other accessors, the trend
> seems to be to discourage use of C macros and move people over to C
> functions instead.  With that in mind, it seems inconsistent to have
> people using SCM_POINTER_VALUE for lack of a C function to do this job.
>
> What do you think?

Sounds like a great idea to me.

Cheers,

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01  6:20 Should we add scm_to_pointer, or just use SCM_POINTER_VALUE? Mark H Weaver
2012-02-01 10:59 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2012-02-02 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-02 21:49   ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-02 22:10   ` Mark H Weaver

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