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Re: srfi-89 implementation for guile
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Martin Becze |
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Re: srfi-89 implementation for guile |
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Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:40:45 -0500 |
On 8/10/20 4:26 PM, Linus Björnstam wrote:
> Well done! Macros are great fun. I glanced through your source and could
> follow it without much hickups.
Thanks! It has been good learning experience.
> You probably know this already, but you can actually do the sanitize-rest at
> compile time for cases where the procedure is not passed as an argument to
> some.other procedure.
>
> Say we (define* (blah ...) Body...).
>
> Then you define one function that does argument checking (%blah-check) at
> runtime and one that does not (%blah)
>
> Then make the regular blah a macro. Using identifier macros you dispatch to
> %blah-check if it is not used in call position, or check all keyword
> arguments and sanitize them at compile time and dispatch it to %blah.
>
> I spent some time implementing define-inlinable*, a keyword-aware
> define-inlinable, using that. I never baked it fully, so I never submitted a
> patch, but that is the approach I took, and the approach that
> define-inlinable uses which you can find in the guile sources.
>
I hadn't thought of this at all. Interesting idea, might give it a try.
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