On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon <
p...@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
> ;;; In function MAKE-KEYWORD, checking types of arguments SYM.
> What does this note mean?
>
That means a possibly expensive type check for SYM was inserted at the
beginning of the function. In this case it is possibly ensuring that SYM has
the right type for STRING
> I hope that in addition to checking the types of the arguments, it
> also generates the code to do the required computations... ;-)
>
Sure :-) I thought the warning is important because of the expensiveness of
the checks, which may slow down critical functions.
Juanjo
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