From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Items blocking release 1.6.1 (2002-04-21) Date: 22 Apr 2002 20:44:36 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ofgbshd7.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87d6wtqawx.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87n0vvzk31.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019500961 31095 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2002 18:42:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:42:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zils-00085Q-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:42:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zilQ-0005j0-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip169.dokom.de ([195.138.42.169] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zikN-0005h6-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 1317 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Apr 2002 18:44:36 -0000 Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87n0vvzk31.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:450 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:450 Marius Vollmer writes: > > Marius: you discussed a fix for this in email, but also mention that > > it's functionality is fairly easily worked around via default value > > -- so are we fixing it for 1.6, or are we adding a NEWS entry > > recommending the alternative approach? If we are fixing it, and if > > you can describe the fix, I can do the work. > > I'll fix this this evening. Ok, I'll looker closer into this, and I now have to say that we can't 'fix' it. We would be changing the default default value from '#f' to something else. That would be an unacceptable interface change. Since it is easy for the user to provide the functionality on its own, we can just leave it as it is. Sorry, this didn't occur to me before. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel