Re: A question about SCM_DEFINE & guile-snarf

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 16 Jun 2011 00:06, Peter TB Brett <address@hidden> writes:

> The Guile manual says:
>
>> For historical reasons, the `SCM_DEFINE' macro also defines a static
>> array of characters named `s_clear_image', initialized to the string
>> "clear-image".  You shouldn't use this array, but you might need to be
>> aware that it exists.
>
> Why is using this discouraged?  libguile itself does!
>
> And it's very convenient when raising errors in the function, or marking
> the function for export using scm_c_export()...

Indeed, this note was in error.  I have fixed it now; thanks for the
report!

Andy
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