Re: Policy about SRFI usage?

[David Kastrup]

"Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>>
>>     On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:48 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>         I was wondering what the Lilypond policies are for using
>>         SRFI, such as SRFI-13 for string functions.  My question was
>>         triggered by looking at scm/lily-sort.scm (only used at
>>         document creation time) which could be
>>
>>     There are no specific policies, except that you have to be
>>     careful.  For example, there is a GUILE module that provides a
>>     format function, which also has enormous high rate of garbage
>>     generation; switching back to a hand-coded format cut memory
>>     usage in half.
>
> I would add: make Scheme code as portable as possible.

Hm?  You mean, run on other interpreters rather than Guile?  If so, why?

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David Kastrup