From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Uhl Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: modules Date: 23 Mar 2004 09:05:44 -0700 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <877jxeahbn.fsf@buug.org> <871xnmntoq.fsf@ivanova.rotty.yi.org> <87fzc0zriu.fsf@buug.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080058021 29857 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 16:07:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 17:06:53 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 1B5oQW-0007Ae-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:06:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5oQD-0002BP-1r for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:06:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5oQ3-0002B7-91 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:06:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5oPX-00025r-IJ for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:06:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.7.170.6] (helo=latakia.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5oPX-00025X-6z for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:05:51 -0500 Original-Received: by latakia.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8F551246A1; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:05:44 -0700 (MST) Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87fzc0zriu.fsf@buug.org> Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2976 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2976 Ian Zimmerman writes: > > The actual situation is this: my module internally uses a global hash > table. This is invisible to users, except that there is no way for the > module itself to guess the table size in advance, so there has to be a > way for users to customize it. Wouldn't the Right Thing in this case be that hash tables be dynamic? In other words, to remove the need for the user guess at all (which is not all that likely to be on-the-money anyway). -- Robert Uhl If you're a politician, bureaucrat, or cop whose livelihood depends on the drug war, you're fully as contemptible as any pusher, smuggler, or cocaine baron--more so, because, unlike them, you profit directly by destroying what was once the greatest freedom ever known to mankind. --Mirelle Stein, The Productive Class _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user