From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: screwy alist syntax Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:10:18 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082078062 9797 80.91.224.253 (16 Apr 2004 01:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 01:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 16 03:14:14 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 1BEHvq-0005k7-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 03:14:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEHtq-0001hG-M9 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEHtH-0000ze-US for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEHsW-00005X-0B for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.22.104.47] (helo=mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BEHsV-00085t-3e for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu (MOS 3.4.3-CR) with SMTP id AWK19222; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:10:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 18261 invoked by uid 500); 16 Apr 2004 01:10:40 -0000 Original-To: Brian S McQueen In-Reply-To: (Brian S. McQueen's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:11:35 -0700 (PDT)") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Brian S McQueen , guile-user@gnu.org Original-Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 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:3085 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:3085 Brian S McQueen wrote: > I just noticed something that looks screwy. Is there a good reason for > the following? Whether there was a good reason when these procedures were invented, I can't say. (ass*-ref and other *-ref procedures follow the same pattern among themselves, at least.) But backward compatibility is a good reason now for them to stay the way they are. paul _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user