From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: GC rewrite, first version. Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:15:11 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87eldja9b4.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <15685.48166.358219.226421@blauw.xs4all.nl> <15688.9798.978583.867042@meddo.cs.uu.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028150200 6866 127.0.0.1 (31 Jul 2002 21:16:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dirk Herrmann , guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17a0pj-0001mc-00 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:16:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17a0qA-0004Ba-00; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17a0oP-0003yn-00 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCF8C4D8; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:15:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DAA7D1457; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:15:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Han-Wen Nienhuys In-Reply-To: <15688.9798.978583.867042@meddo.cs.uu.nl> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:02:46 +0200") Original-Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:905 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:905 Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > Personally, I view source code as a form of prose. It should be > easily readable. Hence I prefer variable names that can just be read > as an english expression, with the prefix scm_ for delimiting our > namespace, perhaps with an abbreviation here or there to keep the > lines within my editor window. Typically, the most generic word > (always a noun), eg number, size, string, comes last Overall I agree, though I will say that all other things being equal, I tend to feel that consistency within the codebase, up to a certain point, improves readability (and managability wrt finding things via the normal tools like grep, etc.) more than having some files with the "perfect style" and others without would. > scm_heap_segment_table_size > scm_formals_str(ing) > > in stead of > > scm_n_heap_segs > scm_s_formals I consider the latter uglier, and wouldn't choose it myself, but I could manage with either if the convention were consistently used. > And for the rest, I think that GUILE 1.6 should be released. Agreed. I've fixed the remaining issues, and 1.5.7 has been ready for upload since last week, but I've been waiting for alpha.gnu.org to become available again. > As an aside, if no-one objects to it, I would like to merge the new GC > code coming weekend. No opinion -- I'd rather have the people who know the GC better comment on that, but I definitely appreciate your efforts in trying to clean things up. Seems like the gc and eval are two of the (understandably) harder segments of code to get a handle on when you start messing with guile, so the more we can make these transparent without appreciably harming our performance or functionality, the better. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel