From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Worrying development Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:29:24 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k73hpj9n.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <1074246064.6729.23.camel@localhost> <87vfn9ufvw.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <400FF648.3080706@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> <200401221842.KAA20956@morrowfield.regexps.com> <40110961.1040808@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> <200401231716.JAA26107@morrowfield.regexps.com> <87oesus7kg.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <20040124120954.GB6589@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074951211 6953 80.91.224.253 (24 Jan 2004 13:33:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 14:33:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AkNud-0003Nj-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:33:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AkNtH-0007D0-Ee for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:31:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AkNrQ-0006of-FK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AkNqr-0006Ml-No for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.8.218] (helo=mail.dokom.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AkNqp-0006JT-Nh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway15.dip154.dokom.de ([195.253.15.154] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 1AkNrh-00041I-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:30:21 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 17011 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Jan 2004 13:29:24 -0000 Original-To: rm@fabula.de In-Reply-To: <20040124120954.GB6589@www> (rm@fabula.de's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:09:54 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3309 gmane.lisp.guile.user:2710 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2710 rm@fabula.de writes: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:28:03PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >> Marius Vollmer wrote: >> > Also, there is the possibility on the horizon that we turn string-ref >> > etc into 'primitive generics' which means that people could implement >> > new kinds of strings using GOOPS. >> >> Neat. Has/might that also be done for car & cdr? Then we could have >> Python-like generators. It would make SCM_C[AD]R less speedy, though >> they could still be pretty fast for actual pairs. > > Wow, _that_ would be a real help! I have to build bindings for some > heavy C++ libs that make excessive use of iterators. A generic 'sequence' > type with the right generics would help a lot -- the bindings would look > much more scheme-ish. Hmm, my immediate reaction is that car/cdr are too low-level for making them overrideable, but map and for-each and other operations that work on whole sequences look like good targets... -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel