Re: GRM questions

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Martin Grabmueller wrote:

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> > From: Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:14:54 +0200 (MEST)
> > 
> > Huh, well, they are used all over guile, but IMO, there's a lot of strange
> > things going on there.  Who's afraid of SCM_VALIDATE_SUBSTRING_SPEC_COPY,
> > SCM_VALIDATE_INUM_MIN_DEF_COPY, SCM_VALIDATE_NONEMPTYLIST_COPYLEN,
> > SCM_VALIDATE_NULLORROSTRING_COPY?  I am :-)
> 
> SCM_VALIDATE_SUBSTRING_SPEC_COPY saved my life when I implemented
> SRFI-13, where I needed it's functionality a billion times (well, 86
> times, actually).

I understand that this is comfortable, but that doesn't mean that it
should be part of the API.  Nothing speaks agains putting such
funcionality into a local macro if the pattern is used often in a file.

Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann