Re: When to use SCM_DEFINE vs SCM_GPROC vs SCM_PRIMITIVE_GENERIC?

[Mark H Weaver]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> And I don't recall the practical difference between GPROC and
> PRIMITIVE_GENERIC.

I found the answer.  According to a commit message by Mikael Djurfeldt
in 2003, all uses of SCM_GPROC should be converted to use
SCM_PRIMITIVE_GENERIC.

  http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.cvs/month=20030301

I will do this for all extensible functions in numbers.c.  I will also
make some other numeric functions extensible.  For example, it occurs to
me if we make `inf?', `nan?', and `finite?' extensible, then users will
be able to easily extend them to handle non-real complex values, if
desired.

    Best,
     Mark