From: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Beginner question: where is defstruct?
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:36:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071011093638.GC30746@raven.wolf.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7ebvt2y.fsf@chbouib.org>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:
> > In guile's info page, all I can find is chapter 22.5, but this seems
> > to describe something much more general than what defstruct would do.
> `defstruct' as described in this document is something specific to some
> Scheme implementation. The chapter you saw in Guile's manual is another
> non-portable way to define structures, in Guile this time.
>
> The most portable way to define structures is to use SRFI-9:
>
> http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html
>
> It is available in Guile using "(use-modules (srfi srfi-9))" or
> "(require-extension (srfi 9))" (the latter being the portable way to get
> the portable "structures" :-)).
Thanks for the explanation, Ludovic! I'll go and try to read/understand
srfi-9.
BTW: Why do people teach newbies non-portable things in their tutorials?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 9:14 Beginner question: where is defstruct? Josef Wolf
2007-10-10 16:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-11 9:36 ` Josef Wolf [this message]
2007-10-11 12:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
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