Re: When to use SCM_DEFINE vs SCM_GPROC vs SCM_PRIMITIVE_GENERIC?

[Andy Wingo]

On Sat 29 Jan 2011 16:39, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Sounds great to me.  Thanks for doing the archeology!

Andy
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