From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Subject: Re: Introduction of fractions exposes uniform vector prototype bug
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:19:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u1331m72.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zndowks7.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:38:16 +1000")
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:
> Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mit.edu> writes:
>>
>> I have no good suggestion for what to do about this, but one thing is
>> certain: We can't suggest people to use 1/3 as prototype for double
>> arrays (at least now without modifying scm_make_uve).
>
> I'd be pretty inclined to make it a special case, for compatibility.
>
> Asking people to change their code after they've followed something
> the manual explicitly said is never nice.
>
> Fractions apart from 1/3 could be left to indicate an array of
> fractions, if such a thing is added in the future.
>
> Perhaps (below),
Yes, excellent. Please apply.
We probably should get rid of the prototype scheme completely, sooner
or later...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-10 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-25 23:02 Introduction of fractions exposes uniform vector prototype bug Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-12-19 21:38 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-12-20 16:12 ` tomas
2003-12-20 17:52 ` Stephen Compall
2003-12-21 0:42 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-10 22:19 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2004-01-10 23:02 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-10 0:05 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-10 23:30 ` Rob Browning
2004-02-12 0:26 ` Kevin Ryde
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