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Re: restricting functions to only accept string parameters


From: Dale P. Smith
Subject: Re: restricting functions to only accept string parameters
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:10:12 -0400

Dirk Herrmann wrote:

> So, please, tell me whether this change is allright, or for which
> functions you think that symbols as input parameters would make sense.

Allowing a symbol for the function name in scm-error is probably a good
idea.

IMHO, since the standard allows mixed-case symbols to be eq, it doesn't
really make sense to allow symbols for filenames and regular expressions
and so on.

-Dale
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Dale P. Smith
Altus Technologies Corp.
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