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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: Dirk Herrmann <dirk@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug in syncase
Date: 17 Nov 2002 10:54:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r8dk5uvm.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u1ihs6jn.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>

>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

    Marius> I can't say right now how to fix this, but in general, I
    Marius> think the whole syntax transformer business needs to be
    Marius> redone for a separate memoizer/compiler pass.  That is, it
    Marius> is OK when your new evaluator breaks the existing syncase
    Marius> and this is not easily fixed.  We need to find a fix
    Marius> eventually, but that fix should also remove the kluginess
    Marius> of the current situation completely.

OK in principle, but how long will "eventually" be?

I suggest that this work be code-managed such that we can still
release a 1.8 series with syncase working and _before_ redoing syntax
transformation.

More positively, perhaps this memoization/evaluation separation,
redoing syntax transformation, support for compilation and storage of
memoized code etc. is such a big improvement that we could call its
first release Guile 2.0.

That would be great. But I really want to see a 1.8.x series first.

        Neil



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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-17 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-14 11:59 bug in syncase Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-15  4:10 ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-11-15  9:29   ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-11-15  9:34 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-11-15 19:25 ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-16 18:39 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-11-17 10:54   ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2002-11-17 20:07     ` Marius Vollmer
     [not found] <Pine.GSO.4.05.10211161811180.9959-100000@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>
2002-11-17 12:11 ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-20 17:33   ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-21 17:53   ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-21 20:22     ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-23 10:53       ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-24  9:25         ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-24 10:33           ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-12-04  1:12           ` Rob Browning
2002-11-23 13:01       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-12-04 18:27       ` Carl R. Witty
2002-12-04 20:54         ` Neil Jerram
2002-12-09 20:28           ` Carl R. Witty

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