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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement SRFI-111 Boxes
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:37:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjkeqdc5.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbv2i55a.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:01:37 +0100")

On Tue 25 Mar 2014 18:01, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Tu put it differently, I don’t think it would buy us anything to make
> variable SRFI-111 boxes.

Dunno; variables are slightly cheaper than records.  Their type checks
are easier and they take less memory.  

> However, it could perhaps break code

In what way?

> and would not allow for a separate type printer, which is useful.

Not sure what this point is, as the external representation was not
specified in SRFI-111.

Perhaps we are miscommunicating -- I would change what we currently call
"variables" to be "boxes".  WDYT?

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-24  5:56 [PATCH] Implement SRFI-111 Boxes Mark H Weaver
2014-01-24  9:39 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2014-01-24 10:57   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-24 22:23     ` Andy Wingo
2014-03-25 17:01       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-25 19:37         ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2014-03-25 20:21           ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-25 20:31             ` Andy Wingo
2014-03-25 21:18               ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-24 10:55 ` Ludovic Courtès

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