From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [BDW-GC] "Inlined" storage; `scm_take_' functions Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:20:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87ab1fnkiq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874ornldw0.fsf@gnu.org> <1251766122.17414.5683.camel@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251793536 12902 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2009 08:25:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:25:36 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 10:25:29 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 1MiOg6-00030m-GA for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:25:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiOg5-0001Pd-EE for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MiOg1-0001OH-Jn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MiOfw-0001NA-Gl for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45717 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiOfw-0001N7-8z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51405) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MiOfv-0005Vs-LP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MiOfn-0002rp-2E for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr ([147.210.128.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 15 Fructidor an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wtLGycaffVfs3ad5GRL7Q6JzwbA= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:9232 Archived-At: Hi, Mike Gran 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'.