Re: The GH interface. (was: Patch for gh.h)

[Rob Browning]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> IMO, the best solution is the one that was proposed by Neil Jerram in
> this same thread:
> 
> > - invent a macro SCM_INTERNAL, and use it in libguile header files to
> >   mark everything not considered portable, stable and appropriate for
> >   external use (then Guile would #define SCM_INTERNAL, but
> >   applications should normally not do so)
> 
> No additional files, no weird renaming.  Making a definition internal is
> quite easy and just requires to put it between #ifdef SCM_INTERNAL #endif
> pairs.  However, we also have the convention, that internal definitions
> should use a scm_i_ or SCM_I_ prefix, but not many definitions follow this
> rule yet.  A combination of both ideas (i. e. using SCM_INTERNAL
> plus the scm_i_ / SCM_I_ prefix) seems nice.

Oh, right I'd forgotten about that one.  That sounds good too, though
if the SCM_INTERNAL blocks are scattered and large, it might be more
confusing to end-users, but it's certainly less hassle, editing-wise.

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930