From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Worrying development
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:29:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k73hpj9n.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040124120954.GB6589@www> (rm@fabula.de's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:09:54 +0100")
rm@fabula.de writes:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:28:03PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> wrote:
>> > Also, there is the possibility on the horizon that we turn string-ref
>> > etc into 'primitive generics' which means that people could implement
>> > new kinds of strings using GOOPS.
>>
>> Neat. Has/might that also be done for car & cdr? Then we could have
>> Python-like generators. It would make SCM_C[AD]R less speedy, though
>> they could still be pretty fast for actual pairs.
>
> Wow, _that_ would be a real help! I have to build bindings for some
> heavy C++ libs that make excessive use of iterators. A generic 'sequence'
> type with the right generics would help a lot -- the bindings would look
> much more scheme-ish.
Hmm, my immediate reaction is that car/cdr are too low-level for
making them overrideable, but map and for-each and other operations
that work on whole sequences look like good targets...
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 9:41 Worrying development Roland Orre
2004-01-16 11:59 ` tomas
2004-01-18 21:05 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-18 21:58 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-22 21:47 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-22 16:11 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-22 18:42 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 11:45 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 17:16 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 21:01 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-23 22:18 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-24 0:27 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-24 0:53 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 22:28 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-24 12:09 ` rm
2004-01-24 13:29 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2004-01-26 2:42 ` overriding car/cdr (was: Worrying development) Paul Jarc
2004-02-08 16:21 ` overriding car/cdr Dirk Herrmann
2004-02-08 18:09 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-08 20:56 ` Paul Jarc
2004-03-20 22:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:05 ` David Van Horn
2004-03-22 21:03 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:24 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-23 22:37 ` Worrying development Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 23:25 ` Tom Lord
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