Re: Worrying development

[rm]

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.

 Ralf Mattes
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> paul
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