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Re: struct bug
Clark McGrew <mcgrew@ale.physics.sunysb.edu> writes:
> >>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:
>
> Dirk> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Clark McGrew wrote:
> >> I was playing with structs this morning, and I noticed that the
> >> documentation example snarfed into struct.doc doesn't work
> >> right.
>
> Dirk> That part of the struct code is a mess: The documentation
> Dirk> and implementation both hold inconsistencies.
>
> Quite!
...except that it is totally wrong.
What has happened here is that the documentation has set you on the
wrong tracks.
I did not write the struct system, and I did not write the
documentation, but I can tell you that it works well, is used in Guile
at various places, and is the current basis for GOOPS objects.