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Re: New NUM2INTEGRAL functions - unwanted polymorphism?


From: Rob Browning
Subject: Re: New NUM2INTEGRAL functions - unwanted polymorphism?
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:09:19 -0500
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Michael Livshin <address@hidden> writes:

> good idea, except I don't know how to deprecate it nicely.  OTOH,
> you may argue that it's a bugfix, and so the deprecation machinery
> shouldn't be involved at all.

I'd tend to agree with that assesment, though if we went that route,
it might be nice if we made sure the error msg made the problem clear.

  ERROR: scm_num2long - expected exact, got inexact.

or similar.

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Rob Browning
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