From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Generalized vs generic Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:02:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87d5ulfnmm.fsf@zagadka.de> References: <66e540fe05021001586e652353@mail.gmail.com> <874qgizsq2.fsf@zip.com.au> <66e540fe05021202554b4f9b42@mail.gmail.com> <87ekfaq0xg.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109556264 7229 80.91.229.2 (28 Feb 2005 02:04:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:04:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 28 03:04:23 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5aGZ-0003MP-Ue for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:04:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5aYq-0002HR-It for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5aY3-0001y3-IO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5aXy-0001w1-DQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5aXx-0001tv-Tt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.8.218] (helo=mail.dokom.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D5aEi-0001qn-Rr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:02:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.16.122] (helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D5aEi-0005gD-46 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:02:16 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 4700 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Feb 2005 02:02:09 -0000 Original-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se In-Reply-To: <87ekfaq0xg.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:14:19 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4802 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4802 Kevin Ryde writes: > Mikael Djurfeldt writes: >> >> Well, to me that specific meaning---a function that can operate on any >> of a set of types---is just another example of what we have here: a >> vector that can be any of a set of types, so my view is that its just >> an advantage to use the same term. > > Sounds fair. I am fine with changing "generalized" to "generic" as well. Mikael, please go ahead, if you want to. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel