From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: records as s-expressions Date: 16 Oct 2003 22:09:34 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87llrxcan4.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87fzhtq87a.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066338674 17991 80.91.224.253 (16 Oct 2003 21:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:11:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 23:11:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAFOp-0002sC-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:11:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAFOC-0001Dd-LN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAFNz-00019r-Qd for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAFNT-0000zj-8q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.21] (helo=s1.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAFNS-0000zA-NH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net (bts-0888.dialup.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.51.120]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9GL9dC28437; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:09:42 +0100 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laruns.ossau.uklinux.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386)) with ESMTP id 8A0AADC4D4; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:09:34 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Thamer Al-Harbash In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2886 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2886 >>>>> "Thamer" == Thamer Al-Harbash writes: Thamer> The simple solution is to store type information as a symbol so Thamer> this distinction can be made: Thamer> # This won't work. (Or, more precisely, to make it work would be arbitrarily complex.) Consider, for example, if the arg is a list of , or a list of lists of , and so on. Type must be implicit in the printed form. Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel