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: Introduction of fractions exposes uniform vector prototype bug Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:19:13 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1331m72.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87zndowks7.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073773690 32531 80.91.224.253 (10 Jan 2004 22:28:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 10 23:28:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AfRaM-0004SI-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:28:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AfSSn-00029w-Cf for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AfSPv-0001Lw-At for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:21:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AfSPN-00019N-0W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.8.218] (helo=mail.dokom.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AfSPM-00019C-GL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:20:44 -0500 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway15.dip81.dokom.de ([195.253.15.81] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 1AfRSU-0004ii-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:19:55 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 12889 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jan 2004 22:19:13 -0000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87zndowks7.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:38:16 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3182 Kevin Ryde writes: > Mikael Djurfeldt 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... -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel