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Re: Worrying development
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Marius Vollmer |
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Re: Worrying development |
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Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:29:24 +0100 |
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address@hidden writes:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:28:03PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Also, there is the possibility on the horizon that we turn string-ref
>> > etc into 'primitive generics' which means that people could implement
>> > new kinds of strings using GOOPS.
>>
>> Neat. Has/might that also be done for car & cdr? Then we could have
>> Python-like generators. It would make SCM_C[AD]R less speedy, though
>> they could still be pretty fast for actual pairs.
>
> Wow, _that_ would be a real help! I have to build bindings for some
> heavy C++ libs that make excessive use of iterators. A generic 'sequence'
> type with the right generics would help a lot -- the bindings would look
> much more scheme-ish.
Hmm, my immediate reaction is that car/cdr are too low-level for
making them overrideable, but map and for-each and other operations
that work on whole sequences look like good targets...
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- Re: Worrying development, (continued)
- Re: Worrying development, Dirk Herrmann, 2004/01/22
- Re: Worrying development, Tom Lord, 2004/01/22
- Re: Worrying development, Dirk Herrmann, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, Tom Lord, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, Marius Vollmer, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, Tom Lord, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, Marius Vollmer, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, Tom Lord, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, Paul Jarc, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, rm, 2004/01/24
- Re: Worrying development,
Marius Vollmer <=
- overriding car/cdr (was: Worrying development), Paul Jarc, 2004/01/25
- Re: Worrying development, Dirk Herrmann, 2004/01/23
- Re: Worrying development, Tom Lord, 2004/01/23