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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: tomas@fabula.de, guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org,
	bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of array?
Date: 17 Nov 2002 16:29:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smy0nrj4.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021115021213.B12469@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com>

Christopher Cramer <crayc@pyro.net> writes:

> I distinctly remember sending a patch to fix this to either bug-guile or
> guile-devel a loooong time ago, but I can't find it in the archives. I'm
> surprised it's not fixed in 1.6.0, but maybe it's because I never sent
> the patch in...

I'm hesitant to just apply this patch.  The 'array' stuff in Guile is
quite obscure, in my view, and fixing it piecewise does not seem to be
a good idea, given its (appearant) brittleness.  For example, with
your patch,

  guile> (array? "foo")
  #f

but

  guile> (array-ref "foo" 0)
  #\f

which is inconsistent.  On the other hand, we have now

  guile> (array? 'foo)
  #t

but

  guile> (array-ref 'foo 0)
  Wrong type argument in position 1: foo

which is also inconsistent.

The whole array stuff needs to be looked over, with SRFI-4 in mind.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-17 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-05 11:57 Strange behaviour of array? tomas
2002-11-15  8:12 ` Christopher Cramer
2002-11-15  8:46   ` tomas
2002-11-17 15:29   ` Marius Vollmer [this message]

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