Re: Re-addition of deprecated stuff to 1.7.

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> To illustrate, consider the change from a two-arg version of scm_eval
> to the three-arg one.  When making the decision to make that change
> (instead of just adding a new function), we can offer a switch that
> activates the three-arg version:
>
>
>    /* old code, using two-arg eval */
>
>    #include <libguile.h>
>
>    -------------------
>    /* new code, using three-arg eval */
>
>    #define GUILE_ENABLE_THREE_ARG_EVAL
>    #include <libguile.h>
>
> Later, we can deprecate the 'enable' variant and prefer a 'disable'
> one:

So would this be a user-code compile-time setting, or a libguile
compile time setting?  (I'm wondering/concerned about binary API
compatibility and versioning issues.)

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Rob Browning
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