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Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:00:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Linas Vepstas <address@hidden> writes:
> 2009/12/17 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yi DAI <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names
>>> commonly found in assembly languages.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*.
>>> - Replace > (greater than) with *_gt*.
>>
>> Changing conventions would mean changing the API or maintaining function
>> name aliases, and I don’t think it’s worth it.
>
> well, the API is controlled by the scheme steering committee,
AIUI he’s talking about the Scheme-to-C API mapping, which is not
controlled by “the committee”.
Thanks,
Ludo’.