From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BDW-GC] "Inlined" storage; `scm_take_' functions
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:20:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab1fnkiq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1251766122.17414.5683.camel@localhost.localdomain
Hi,
Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 02:14 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> The `scm_take_' functions for strings/symbols/bytevectors are now
>> essentially aliases to the corresponding `scm_from_' because we cannot
>> advantageously reuse the provided storage.
>>
>> Should these functions be deprecated or discouraged?
>>
>
> codesearch.google.com says that scm_take_ isn't often used by other
> projects, but, it is used by lilypond. I think that's reason enough to
> leave it in. I'd vote for keeping them and adjusting the docs to say
> something like
>
> Like `scm_from_locale_string' and `scm_from_locale_stringn',
> respectively, but also immediately frees STR after creating
> the Guile string.
>
> Or something like that.
Of course, I meant "keep them but possibly moved into
{discouraged,deprecated}.c". Your doc suggestion looks good to me also.
Thanks,
Ludo'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 0:14 [BDW-GC] "Inlined" storage; `scm_take_' functions Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-01 0:48 ` Mike Gran
2009-09-01 8:20 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2009-09-08 23:54 ` Neil Jerram
2009-09-09 8:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-09 21:38 ` Neil Jerram
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