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Re: Bad define placement?
- To: fotang@yahoo.com
- Subject: Re: Bad define placement?
- From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:39:33 +0100
- Cc: guile@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <37C6E7F8.26BB@yahoo.com>
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:33:12 +0200, fotang@yahoo.com wrote:
> --- Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@linux.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> > James Dean Palmer <james@tiger-marmalade.com>
> ..
> > > I've gotten a new error with 1.3.2 on some code
> > that worked with 1.3.1:
> >
> > Mikael has ported Aubrey Jaffers enhancements to
> > guile's evaluator.
>
> I hope that's a good thing. This define thing infected
> so much code that it should maybe be made standard.
Well - I'm one of those people who thinks that Guiles performance is
important - so if this change enables significantly more efficient evaluation,
fine.
If not - I'd certainly agree - permitting define in the middle of a block
(eg immediately before the variable is used) can make for much more readable code.