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From: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.2-101-gd851e32
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:35:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+U71=M73mkCzUPJd+8=FR1s79uDrnoK--AaMrYtSstebot4mA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nzxpvqs.fsf@gnu.org>

Hello,

> (Though I think that the term ‘constant’, as used by GCC, is confusing.
> I don’t have a better name to propose, though.)

How about 'algebraic'? As in functions in basic algebra. (I know it
has a different meaning, though.)

Or alternatively, something referencing the lambda calculus, since all
lambda calculus functions have this property.

Noah



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1R78DA-0005aI-MY@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2011-09-24 18:37 ` GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.2-101-gd851e32 Mark H Weaver
2011-09-25 20:34   ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-09-26 11:20     ` Andy Wingo
2011-09-27 20:37       ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-09-28  2:35         ` Noah Lavine [this message]
2011-09-28  9:25           ` Ludovic Courtès

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