From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add `fixnum?' VM primitive Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:48:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1300846773-19003-1-git-send-email-a.rottmann@gmx.at> <1300846773-19003-2-git-send-email-a.rottmann@gmx.at> <87sjuc2n66.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301398403 6503 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 11:33:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 13:33:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4XAk-0008M6-S4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:33:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4XAk-0003rJ-43 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41050 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4XAf-0003qN-8F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4XAd-0002Dj-HG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:59063 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4XAd-0002De-Fd; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A0F43A21; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:34:58 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=DXTcIFCU1M0Z hxR2PaNjiqysHms=; b=yD++0KrSlb951sD2HztjQBNKiyUjq+TtDYeFXRQvoT6m ZMvj2PgEgXQ/6yAALpQvwkjP+NsErbZjIGlLyjD4B6oZXWZX9DA9wo6rBw7BveUX vfDbScXFPK1wfz5g7BFNomXpAnk1iXImzFAtdw77UT8W7acn5cKzJ1AJT2/fsbo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=NVDK10 3wXSWks3g7ggQwSNaxM3B5HdoWxp9jMjFaEH32xpJVgzvBwycFGXBjVW+THPO8LR nU/r0FGgdLvAdqokKhIuEnrfF3Zf2l6P32ddktAKqum8Uma76e/cV/5QjbqzkMtu AYHP/6st3pdpMNtPKfqL31l8AXXSaZMBc5/S0= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079CE3A20; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:34:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5D8013A1D; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:34:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87sjuc2n66.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:01:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 92205C1C-59F8-11E0-999E-E8AB60295C12-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 64.74.157.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12040 Archived-At: On Thu 24 Mar 2011 23:01, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > Also, I=E2=80=99d prefer not to have =E2=80=98fixnum?=E2=80=99 in the def= ault name space > because: > > 1. In Guile parlance, it=E2=80=99d rather be =E2=80=98immediate-number?= =E2=80=99 (info > "(guile) Immediate objects"). Not related to Andreas' patch, but... I think our terminology is silly here. "Fixnum" is better IMO. Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/