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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] First batch of numerics changes
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:36:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwsb30s3.fsf@yeeloong.netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zkqj38gi.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (Andy Wingo's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:50:37 +0100")

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>> * libguile/numbers.c (scm_div, scm_mod, scm_div_and_mod, scm_div0,
>>   scm_mod0, scm_div0_and_mod0): New extensible procedures `div', `mod',
>>   `div-and-mod', `div0', `mod0', `div0-and-mod0'.
>
> I wonder; should we use Taylor Campbell's names?  From
> http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/DivisionRiastradh.  I am inclined to
> think so.  It doesn't seem to me that there is any special reason to
> take the R6RS names here.
>
> What do you think?

Yeah, I think you're right.  Although I find `div' and `mod' to be the
most useful integer division operators, and will always bind them to
short names in my programs, I worry that existing code out there may
bind `div' and `mod' to something else, and that would probably be bad.

I'll take care of it.

    Best,
     Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-29 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26 16:32 [PATCH] First batch of numerics changes Mark H Weaver
2011-01-26 18:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-26 22:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-27 22:06   ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-28 12:19     ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-29  0:05       ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-29 11:29         ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-27 22:32   ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-28 13:46   ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-28 14:44     ` Noah Lavine
2011-01-28 15:55       ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-29  8:20     ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-29 17:42       ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-29 20:20         ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-30 11:48           ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-29 17:50       ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-29 20:36         ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2011-01-29 22:24         ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-30  6:02           ` Commentary: R6RS div0-and-mod0 vs Taylor's `round/' Mark H Weaver
2011-01-30 11:50           ` [PATCH] First batch of numerics changes Andy Wingo
2011-01-30 12:12       ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-30 16:33         ` Mark H Weaver
2011-01-28 11:41 ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-28 23:36   ` Mark H Weaver

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