Re: message primitive

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>]

"Brad Knotwell" <knotwell@my-Deja.com> writes:

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>  > If it's too heavyweight, then one might be able to strip away
>  > some of the features, provide a simple format in libguile and
>  > make a more general version of `format' available in a
>  > library?
> 
> I fought the urge to respond, but the urge won.  Apologize in advance for the formatting.
> 

> Intentionally provocative question.  Given that a perfectly good
> Scheme format module exists, why bother to provide similar
> functionality from the C world?  Even if the current format module is
> too large (not perfectly good?), why not provide a stripped down
> format module written in scheme?

Because we need to be able to use it from the C level (for error
handling).  I find it a bit ugly to use Scheme code from within the
core.

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Greg