From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: overriding car/cdr
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:09:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znbtbfzt.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zncb8m6i.fsf_-_@multivac.cwru.edu> (Paul Jarc's message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:42:39 -0500")
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> wrote:
>> Hmm, my immediate reaction is that car/cdr are too low-level for
>> making them overrideable, but map and for-each and other operations
>> that work on whole sequences look like good targets...
>
> Going that route, there will always be one more function that someone
> wants to be converted.
But car/cdr are not a good way to work with general sequences. Think
of vectors. We should not try hard to turn car/cdr into something
abstract (which they are not, even their names come from the lowest
level). Somehthing like the 'sequence' concept of Common Lisp is a
better approach, I'd say.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 9:41 Worrying development Roland Orre
2004-01-16 11:59 ` tomas
2004-01-18 21:05 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-18 21:58 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-22 21:47 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-22 16:11 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-22 18:42 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 11:45 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 17:16 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 21:01 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-23 22:18 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-24 0:27 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-24 0:53 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 22:28 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-24 12:09 ` rm
2004-01-24 13:29 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-26 2:42 ` overriding car/cdr (was: Worrying development) Paul Jarc
2004-02-08 16:21 ` overriding car/cdr Dirk Herrmann
2004-02-08 18:09 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2004-02-08 20:56 ` Paul Jarc
2004-03-20 22:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:05 ` David Van Horn
2004-03-22 21:03 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:24 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-23 22:37 ` Worrying development Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 23:25 ` Tom Lord
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