Hi, Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> writes:
> Re (ice-9 foo) documentation, i took some pains to fill in the gaps w/ > Guile 1.4.x: > > - http://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile/doc/Module-Index.html > > Shall i submit those (the relevant ones) as doc patches? Would be nice, though I think it should be decided on a per-module basis. There are some modules that it may be worth deprecating and leaving undocumented, perhaps. > I have a functional implementation of purely functional FIFO queues > (F. W. Burton, "An Efficient Implementation of FIFO Queues"), which > I’d rather push instead of an imperative one. > > Note that (ice-9 q) can add to the head of the queue, too. A quick scan > of <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2000/FoundsCS/queues.ML> doesn't > seem to show similar functionality. Yes, because it’s a FIFO. ;-) > Besides, the first idiom at [0] is about as concise as the one that uses > this API; in addition, it is likely to be more widely understood than > the latter. This makes this API unappealing to me. > > I'm sorry, i don't follow. What are you referring to as "the latter"? The ‘accumulate’ API doesn’t lead to more concise code, but it leads to “non-standard” code, which makes it unappealing to me. > Hmmm, would it be possible to install (ice-9 accumulate) as is, w/o > changes, somewhere under ${prefix}/share/guile (perhaps a site/ dir)? > Would Guile be able to locate and load it? Setting $GUILE_LOAD_PATH and $GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH appropriately should be enough. Thanks, Ludo’.
