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Re: Policy about SRFI usage?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Policy about SRFI usage? |
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:28:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
"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