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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] srfi-34: Replace the 'raise' core binding.
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:00:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imn3c5gj.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2w26axz.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:09:44 +0100")

On Tue 26 Nov 2019 14:09, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> AFAICS there are two blockers:
>
>   1. We cannot replace & re-export at the same time.

Following discussion on IRC, this is fixed now, with
#:re-export-and-replace.  Would be nice if #:re-export could know
whether a binding is local or re-exported and DTRT but that isn't the
case currently.

>   2. ‘raise’ takes exactly one argument, whereas ‘raise-exception’ takes
>      an additional keyword argument.

I think ignoring this one is fine FWIW.

> Perhaps also we should provide a mechanism similar to GCC attributes to
> mark a procedure as throwing, so that the compiler can DTRT?

An interesting option :)  FWIW the compiler has to also know how to call
the callee...  Something to think about.

Cheers,

Andy



  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-29 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-25 16:45 [PATCH 0/2] Silence run-time warnings for SRFI-3[45] Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-25 16:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] srfi-34: Replace the 'raise' core binding Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-26 10:09   ` Andy Wingo
2019-11-26 13:09     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-29 11:00       ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2019-11-25 16:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] srfi-35: Replace '&error' Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-26 10:10   ` Andy Wingo

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