From: Peter Bex <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove ##sys# prefix from lambda-info names of library procedures Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:24:59 +0200
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:20:16AM -0700, Evan Hanson wrote: >> On 2014-07-23 10:06, Peter Bex wrote: >> > This change doesn't make much sense to me unless we also deprecate >> > the ##sys#-prefixed versions. ##sys#error sounds more "internal" or >> > "primitive" than "error", so (to me) it makes more sense to have >> > error be an alias of ##sys#error, instead of the other way around. >> >> I don't think we should deprecate the prefixed versions -- this is just >> intended to make e.g. REPL results print more cleanly, and to make e.g. >> introspection slightly nicer when querying `procedure-information`. The >> result is the same from core's point of view, but the user gets a >> cleaner experience. > > Thanks for providing a motivation for this change. That makes sense > indeed. Any objections from other chicken hackers? No, this makes sense. felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
