Re: pushed to master: extensibility to (ice-9 session)

[Clinton Ebadi]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> +(define *value-help-handlers* '())
>>
>> The convention within Guile is rather `%'-prefixed names for globals, as
>> in `%load-path'.
>
> I'm not sure about that.  I interpret `%' as something to do with the
> "system" (e.g. when I was proposing %get-stack-depth).  I would agree
> with the patch that *name* is the convention - if anything is - for
> global variables.

*FOO* to me implies that it is a fluid (as the *FOO* tradition comes
 from Common Lisp where it is used to mark dynamically scoped
 variables). Unadorned `value-help-handlers' seems more in line with
 Scheme style for a global lexical variable.

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