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: bug in syncase Date: 17 Nov 2002 10:54:37 +0000 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87u1ihs6jn.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037536855 4872 80.91.224.249 (17 Nov 2002 12:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dirk Herrmann , guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18DOjM-0001GA-00 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18DOj2-0006jX-00; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18DOVS-0006kW-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:26:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18DOVM-0006Yy-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18DOVK-0006XV-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:26:23 -0500 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net (bts-0990.dialup.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.51.222]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAHCQI710698; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:26:18 GMT 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 50D61DC12B; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:54:38 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87u1ihs6jn.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1720 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1720 >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel