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Re: guile bugs
- To: Greg Badros <gjb AT cs.washington dot edu>
- Subject: Re: guile bugs
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb AT red-bean dot com>
- Date: 16 Sep 1999 10:03:06 -0500
- Cc: Jay Belanger <jay AT vh213601.truman dot edu>, scwm-discuss AT scwm.mit dot edu, guile AT sourceware.cygnus dot com
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> 1) SCM_BOOL_F should be 0 so it is false in C
If someone were to make this change and show me before and after
benchmark results (see guile-modules/benchmarks), then that would help
persuade me.
> 2) SCM should not be a long, but instead be a pointer to undefined
> struct as we discussed before. This would prevent misuse of an integer
> as a Scheme value.
I'd love to see this change happen.
> 3) The checking of the argument numbers using a more sophisticated macro
> like SCWM_PROC and Scwm's documentation extraction system (as mentioned
> in an email earlier this week).
In principle, I would like to switch to a docstring system. I need to
look this over more carefully first, though.