Re: SCM_CALL_N

[Rob Browning]

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Keisuke Nishida <address@hidden> writes:

> Looks nice.  Okay, how many functions do we want?  In libguile,
> the following number of macros (+ a function) are used:
> 
>   SCM_LIST0:    0
>   SCM_LIST1:   79
>   SCM_LIST2:   41
>   SCM_LIST3:   39
>   SCM_LIST4:    8
>   SCM_LIST5:    6
>   SCM_LIST6:    0
>   SCM_LIST7:    0
>   SCM_LIST8:    0
>   SCM_LIST9:    0
>   scm_listify:  6
> 
> Do we want scm_list_0 to scm_list_9 anyway?

I'm not even sure we need anything more than scm_list_5.  For
situations with more args, we can provide scm_list_n.

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Rob Browning
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