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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.

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