From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: better error messages through assertions
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:04:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y20jpwhy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <306618a9-b8f1-16e3-98e1-7c8f699054b3@philipmcgrath.com> (Philip McGrath's message of "Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:28:00 -0400")
Hi,
Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com> skribis:
> On 3/30/22 09:28, Andy Wingo wrote:
>> Too bad about all that other crap about checking whether the index
>> is in
>> range and the field is boxed or not, though :-/ Probably there is a
>> better design...
>> Andy
>
> For the index-out-of-range part, when I saw `record-accessor`, I
> thought of it as similar to Racket's `make-struct-field-accessor`[1],
> which can check the index just once, when the accessor is created,
> rather than each time the accessor is used. That's (part of) what
> Racket's `struct` form expands to.
>
> Would it be reasonable to use `record-accessor` in the implementation
> of SRFI 9?
Yes, or in (guix records).
Medium-term, I thought we could rebase (guix records) on Guile records
with an eye on adding support for inheritance. So perhaps we could do
both.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-05 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-14 22:32 better error messages through assertions Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-15 8:48 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-15 21:45 ` Philip McGrath
2022-02-15 22:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-28 12:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-28 16:18 ` Philip McGrath
2022-03-07 10:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-28 20:25 ` Philip McGrath
2022-03-30 9:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-30 13:28 ` Andy Wingo
2022-04-01 8:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-04-01 19:28 ` Philip McGrath
2022-04-05 12:04 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-04-01 19:47 ` Philip McGrath
2022-02-22 4:31 ` Arun Isaac
2022-02-25 18:55 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-02-26 13:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-26 13:51 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-02-28 13:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-28 16:00 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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