Manual revision?

Manual revision?

[Jon Wilson]

Hi,
The manual for 1.8, at 
"http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/Symbol-Props.html#index-symbol_002dpset_0021-883", 
says the following:

 >Support for these extra slots may be removed in a future release, and it
 >is probably better to avoid using them. (In release 1.6, Guile itself uses
 >the property list slot sparingly, and the function slot not at all.)

My question is, what does guile 1.8 do, and does this need revision?
Regards,
Jon


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Re: Manual revision?

[Neil Jerram]

Jon Wilson <j85wilson@fastmail.fm> writes:

> Hi,
> The manual for 1.8, at
> "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/Symbol-Props.html#index-symbol_002dpset_0021-883",
> says the following:
>
>  >Support for these extra slots may be removed in a future release, and it
>  >is probably better to avoid using them. (In release 1.6, Guile itself uses
>  >the property list slot sparingly, and the function slot not at all.)
>
> My question is, what does guile 1.8 do, and does this need revision?

Guile 1.8 is the same as 1.6, except that the function slot is used by
the experimental Emacs Lisp support that Guile 1.8 has (to hold a
symbol's Lisp function value, as you'd probably guess).  It's still
true that you would be wise to use (make-object-property) instead,
though.

One possible revision would be just to delete the parenthesis.

Regards,
     Neil



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Re: Manual revision?

[Jon Wilson]

Hi Neil,

> Guile 1.8 is the same as 1.6, except that the function slot is used by
> the experimental Emacs Lisp support that Guile 1.8 has (to hold a
> symbol's Lisp function value, as you'd probably guess).  It's still
> true that you would be wise to use (make-object-property) instead,
> though.

Sounds good.

> One possible revision would be just to delete the parenthesis.

Ok, how can I do that?  Or, who can do that?
Regards,
Jon


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Re: Manual revision?

[Neil Jerram]

Jon Wilson <j85wilson@fastmail.fm> writes:

> Hi Neil,
>
>> Guile 1.8 is the same as 1.6, except that the function slot is used by
>> the experimental Emacs Lisp support that Guile 1.8 has (to hold a
>> symbol's Lisp function value, as you'd probably guess).  It's still
>> true that you would be wise to use (make-object-property) instead,
>> though.
>
> Sounds good.
>
>> One possible revision would be just to delete the parenthesis.
>
> Ok, how can I do that?  Or, who can do that?

I just did it, in CVS 1.8 and HEAD branches.  Thanks for pointing this
out.

Regards,
     Neil



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