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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Shinn <alexshinn@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TODO list for Guile R7RS support
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5s27am2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMMPzYPorAZhdse3xgDt2vOCadENEz4tu8VNFW5VLDNNOmUPUA@mail.gmail.com> (Alex Shinn's message of "Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:35:20 +0900")

Hi,

Alex Shinn <alexshinn@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

[...]

>> For GNU/Linux, one could imagine adding a ‘linux-gnu’ symbol, for
>> instance.  Likewise for GNU/kFreeBSD.
>
> I'd like to hear feature recommendations, but you'd need specific
> examples of where such features would be useful.

Sorry for being unclear.

I’m actually arguing that these feature symbols are largely useless, for
they cannot be rigorously specified and would almost certainly lead to
misuses.

Thanks,
Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-16 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09  5:09 TODO list for Guile R7RS support Mark H Weaver
2012-02-10 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-11 20:41   ` Mark H Weaver
2012-02-11 21:11     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-12  3:54   ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-12 23:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-12 23:57       ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-13  4:03         ` William ML Leslie
2012-02-13 11:50         ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-14  2:35           ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-16 21:05             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-02-22 21:46               ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-22 22:06 ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-23  1:39   ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-26 22:08     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-26 22:48       ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-27 16:00         ` Ludovic Courtès

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