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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: API naming bugs
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:54:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lky2cqe7.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873bkawfkg.fsf@zagadka.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:27:43 +0200")

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>  - scm_frame_begin, unwind_handler, etc -- should change because there
>> is also a SCM-based scm_frame interface
>
> Yeah, that's unfortunate.  we have two things that are termed a
> "frame": he things dealt with by scm_frame_begin, etc, and the frames
> of a captured stack.  When designing the scm_frame_begin stuff, I
> didn't think about those "other" frames, and when I finally noticed
> that there is a terminology overlap, ... I refused to think too much
> about it since I wanted to use the nice name for my stuff as
> well... Hmm.  Ideally, I think the captured stack frames should be
> called "stack frames".
>
> Opinions?

Ideally, yes, but I think there is already a body of code using the
existing frame- names.  (At least, I know I have such code in
guile-debugging, and I think others do too, because of the occasional
discussions about getting debugging information out of a stack.)

How about renaming the internal scm_frame functions instead, since
AFAIK they haven't been released yet?  Perhaps scm_context_..., or
scm_dynwind_..., or scm_dc_...?

Regards,
        Neil



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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-30 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-26  0:44 API naming bugs Andy Wingo
2005-12-30 19:27 ` Marius Vollmer
2005-12-30 19:54   ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2006-01-28 22:54     ` Marius Vollmer

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