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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: linasvepstas@gmail.com
Cc: Guile Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>,
	Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: Locks and threads
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:01:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ocwe6hjt.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ae3aa420903051356h55ba0356sc10dfaa5dcd867a8@mail.gmail.com> (Linas Vepstas's message of "Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:56:52 -0600")

Hi Linas,

On Thu 05 Mar 2009 22:56, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> writes:

> Perhaps I'm naive, perhaps some naming convention
> could be used to  indicate that SCM_OUT_OF_RANGE
> will never return?  None of the functions in the call stack
> gave any real hint that they might now return; they mostly
> looked liked ordinary functions.

Changing the names would be quite an undertaking. Perhaps we should be
more clear about this point in the docs, though, as it is fundamental to
Guile programming in C.

Cheers,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/




  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 22:31 Locks and threads Neil Jerram
2009-02-11 23:05 ` Neil Jerram
2009-02-11 23:32   ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-02-11 23:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-02-11 23:53   ` Neil Jerram
2009-02-12  0:18     ` Linas Vepstas
2009-02-12 20:51     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-02-11 23:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-02-12 12:55 ` Greg Troxel
2009-02-12 18:00   ` Ken Raeburn
2009-02-12 21:14     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-02-14  1:25       ` Ken Raeburn
2009-02-14 16:09         ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-05 20:41   ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-04 23:49 ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-05  3:54   ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-05 19:46     ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-05 20:05       ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-05 20:40         ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-05 20:49           ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-05 20:57         ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-05 21:25           ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-05 21:56             ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-06 11:01               ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2009-03-06 12:36                 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-06 22:05                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-08 22:04               ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-25 19:00         ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-25 22:08           ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-05 21:35   ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-10 23:57   ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-12  0:07     ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-12  0:53       ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-12  1:29         ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-12  3:09           ` Clinton Ebadi
2009-03-25 22:13           ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-25 22:34             ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-12 22:13         ` Andy Wingo
2009-03-13 19:13           ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-25 23:19             ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-26  3:40               ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-26  8:02                 ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-26 18:39                   ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-26  9:10               ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-26 22:01                 ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-26 23:12                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-26 22:51               ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-27  3:15                 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-03-14 14:23           ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-16 22:57             ` Andy Wingo
2009-03-25 18:57     ` Neil Jerram

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