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: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:10:42 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d68cnlf1.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <1075174623.23547.960.camel@localhost> <1075207814.23541.1113.camel@localhost> <87ptcpns4w.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077140250 11475 80.91.224.253 (18 Feb 2004 21:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Jarc , guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 18 22:37:10 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 1AtZNW-0007gz-00 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:37:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtZGU-0006v5-LI for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:29:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtZ2K-0002dW-1x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtYxy-0000jR-M2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:11:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.8.218] (helo=mail.dokom.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtYxx-0000ih-KG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:10:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.16.157] (helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 1AtYzD-00015H-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:12:03 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 8747 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Feb 2004 21:10:42 -0000 Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: (Neil Jerram's message of "10 Feb 2004 19:27:11 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:3407 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3407 Neil Jerram writes: > Marius> What about having 'elisp-strings' instead > Marius> escaped-parens? Escaped-parens seems very, very > Marius> specific to me but still its only use is to allow the > Marius> reading of elisp strings. > > OK, I'll make this change. Thanks! > Marius> In the long run, I think we should have a configurable > Marius> reader, much like Common Lisp specifies it. > > Can you give a reference? Here: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/02_aa.htm > Marius> It is a good thing to do, but i this case, not strictly > Marius> necessary, I'd say. You could also have renamed > Marius> scm_lreadparen to scm_i_lreadparen (or made it static, > Marius> maybe) and thus removed it from the public interface of > Marius> libguile. > > So ... > > (1) In this case, should I simplify my change by: > > - eliminating scm_lreadparen (as it is now) > > - renaming scm_lreadparen1 to scm_lreadparen > > - making scm_lreadparen static? Yes. > (2) In general, how do users know what in the C API we are trying to > preserve? (I think the answer should be "whatever is documented > in the manual", but currently that probably doesn't cover enough.) There is a naming convention: everything starting with "scm_i_" is internal. But not everything that shuld be internal has been marked this way yet... -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel