From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [patch] variable datums with syncase transformer Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:21:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87od9sbvv5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1197619616.5218.34.camel@nocandy.dyndns.org> <87y78xqgdp.fsf@gnu.org> <87lk4wao1m.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204759311 26017 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 23:21:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:21:51 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 00:22:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JX2w7-0000ca-Ac for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:22:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX2va-0002uO-2s for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:21:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX2vW-0002qU-Tc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX2vV-0002l4-6H for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX2vV-0002kq-30 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:21:33 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JX2vU-0002Xe-9K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:21:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JX2vP-0005Wv-BY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:21:27 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:21:27 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:21:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-Revolutionary-Date: 17 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vent=F4se?= an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6mM9pnhaKP+kjyGpO9kOb+7ppGc= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7063 Archived-At: szgyg writes: > (set! (@ (guile) car) cdr) Neil Jerram writes: > If I've understood it correctly, I think this patch would change > existing behaviour, by returning a fixed value rather than a location. Um, you're both right! > Could we not look at fixing (ice-9 syncase) instead, so that it > understands variables? Yes. I finally grasp the rationale behind Stephen's patch, and I think I'm convinced that we should apply it. But since I've been so misguided in this discussion, someone else should confirm that it's a good idea. :-) Thanks, Ludovic.