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From: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: "Andy Wingo" <wingo@pobox.com>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] R6RS-style block comments
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:47:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl7tbqbu.fsf@delenn.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r5te7u8g.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Oh man, at some point we have some pain coming, switching to
>> srfi-35/r6rs exceptions. We mentioned it in August and decided to punt
>> indefinitely -- though should someone be interested, help would be
>> welcome ;-)
>
> Yeah, we should do that.  Here's an outline design.
>
> - Core concept is that libguile exceptions are srfi-34/srfi-35 objects.
>   (I haven't yet checked for detailed changes between srfi-34/srfi-35
>   and r6rs.  Are there any?)
>
SRFI-34 is compatible with R6RS, but SRFI-35 is not; I'm not sure wether
they are fundamentally incompatible (i.e. neither is implementable on
top of the other).

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>




  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-25 21:32 [PATCH] R6RS-style block comments Andreas Rottmann
2009-10-02  9:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-10-05 13:25   ` Andreas Rottmann
2009-10-05 21:52     ` Andreas Rottmann
2009-10-06 19:33       ` Andy Wingo
2009-10-07 21:46         ` Neil Jerram
2009-10-14 21:47           ` Andreas Rottmann [this message]
2009-10-19 20:53           ` Exceptions Ludovic Courtès
2009-10-19 20:49     ` [PATCH] R6RS-style block comments Ludovic Courtès
2009-10-06 21:54   ` Neil Jerram

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