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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile warts
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:22:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znbgkoya.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075664499.3688.125.camel@localhost> (Andy Wingo's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:41:39 +0200")

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> * The default namespace is a mess

Yes.

> ** There are undocumented reserved words, like `app' and `repl'

Yes.

> ** Some things in the default namespace should really be in modules of
> their own

Yes.

> I don't want to sound negative. I'm so much happier programming in guile
> scheme than in any other language I've tried. But I do want feedback
> from the devs: are these complaints valid, and is there anyone who is
> working on them?

The problems are known, but no one is really working on them yet.  I'd
like to first make 1.8 ready and then restructure boot-9, etc.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-18 22:22 UTC|newest]

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2004-02-01 19:41         ` Guile warts (was: [GOOPS] Specializing <generic> to allow lazy method addition) Andy Wingo
2004-02-05 19:03           ` Guile warts Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-18 22:22           ` Marius Vollmer [this message]

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