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Re: [PATCH 1/2] srfi-34: Replace the 'raise' core binding.
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] srfi-34: Replace the 'raise' core binding. |
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Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:00:44 +0100 |
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On Tue 26 Nov 2019 14:09, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> AFAICS there are two blockers:
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> 1. We cannot replace & re-export at the same time.
Following discussion on IRC, this is fixed now, with
#:re-export-and-replace. Would be nice if #:re-export could know
whether a binding is local or re-exported and DTRT but that isn't the
case currently.
> 2. ‘raise’ takes exactly one argument, whereas ‘raise-exception’ takes
> an additional keyword argument.
I think ignoring this one is fine FWIW.
> Perhaps also we should provide a mechanism similar to GCC attributes to
> mark a procedure as throwing, so that the compiler can DTRT?
An interesting option :) FWIW the compiler has to also know how to call
the callee... Something to think about.
Cheers,
Andy