From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't mix definitions and expressions in SRFI-9
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:52:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bp1nb3sm.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxl77un3.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:26:40 +0100")
On Sun 06 Mar 2011 23:26, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:
>
>> The expansion of `define-inlinable' contained an expression, which made
>> SRFI-9's `define-record-type' fail in non-toplevel contexts ("definition
>> used in expression context").
>
> SRFI-9 says “Record-type definitions may only occur at top-level”, and
> I’m inclined to stick to it. If we diverge, then people could write
> code thinking it’s portable SRFI-9 code while it’s not.
Does anyone actually care about this? We provide many compatible
extensions to standard interfaces. It seems like this would be an
"unnecessary restriction which makes `let-record-type' seem necessary".
Especially given that the patch actually removes an unused line :)
Regards,
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 16:39 [PATCH] Don't mix definitions and expressions in SRFI-9 Andreas Rottmann
2011-03-06 22:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-06 23:05 ` Alex Shinn
2011-03-06 23:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-07 0:31 ` Andreas Rottmann
2011-03-07 10:55 ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-07 10:52 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-03-07 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-08 0:37 ` Andreas Rottmann
2011-03-09 20:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
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