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Re: SRFI-25 -- multi-dimensional array support.
From: |
Gary Houston |
Subject: |
Re: SRFI-25 -- multi-dimensional array support. |
Date: |
22 Sep 2002 21:34:32 +0100 |
> From: Christopher Cramer <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:20:31 -0500
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 02:48:33PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> > 2) Is our array type close enough to be used as the underlying data
> > type for srfi-25?
> > 3) How should we handle the API and type overlap
> > 4) In the *long* run do we try to merge our API with that of the
> > srfi or keep both APIs/datatypes and keep them separate?
>
> I remember someone saying before (Marius, I think) that we should
> scrap our current uniform array code in favor of srfi-4, because the
> array code we have is a huge pain to deal with. I think this applies
> to multidimensional arrays as well, but I'm not so sure I'd want to
> use srfi-25.
>
> In any case, the array code in Guile is a huge mess and I'd be in favor
> of deprecating it, especially since there seem to be good alternatives.
I think we should turn it into a module. It has been around for a while
and probably shouldn't be deprecated too rapidly.