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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add-relative-load-path ?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:31:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hazjc0rd.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739b4nebd.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:42:46 +0100")

On Wed 25 Jan 2012 13:42, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:
>
>>> What about calling it ‘current-file-name’ instead?
>>
>>   > (apropos "filename")
>>   (guile): set-module-filename!	#<procedure 1546f20 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:1712:2 (module val)>
>>   (guile): module-filename	#<procedure 1546fa0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:1712:2 (module)>
>>   (guile): current-filename
>>   (guile): set-port-filename!	#<procedure set-port-filename! (_ _)>
>>   (guile): port-filename	#<procedure port-filename (_)>
>>   (ice-9 readline): filename-completion-function	#<procedure filename-completion-function (_ _)>
>>   > (apropos "file-name")
>>   > 
>>
>> Though I am responsible for three of those, I think I was just following
>> established convention.
>
> Hmm, OK then.

We can still change it if it's the right thing, but we would probably
need to do the same with the other interfaces (with the deprecation
dance).

Note that there's also the instance of 'filename in alists, like in
source properties.  We probably wouldn't be able to change those.

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-08 15:14 add-relative-load-path ? Andy Wingo
2012-01-14 21:48 ` Neil Jerram
2012-01-20 23:14   ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-21 23:17     ` Neil Jerram
2012-01-23 10:18       ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-23 15:45         ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-01-23 16:20           ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-23 19:36             ` Neil Jerram
2012-01-25 12:42             ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-01-25 14:31               ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2012-01-25 20:41                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-01-25 23:08                   ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-23 20:19         ` Neil Jerram
2012-01-30 20:20 ` add-relative-load-path ? - scm_add_load_path too? Ian Hulin
2012-01-31  8:53   ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-31 16:10     ` Mark H Weaver
2012-02-01 23:30       ` Ian Hulin

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