Re: Likely a good frog project for someone with C knowledge

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:41 AM


> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:14:35PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:17 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> 
> > wrote:
> > > So what does relying on undefined behavior buy us apart from 
> > > the
> > > inability to debug type errors?
> >
> > It buys us time to work on more interesting and more valuable 
> > improvements.
>
> If she works on this,
> asks questions about stuff she doesn't understand, and we add the
> clarifications to the CG, I think this will be a great initial
> Frog project.

+1

To me, the important first step is to enshrine the
correct constructs for common operations in the CG.
Looking through the source code to find examples
of coding Scheme/C++ interactions is confusing in
the extreme.  Even if this is unnecessary for correct
operation it is definitely worthwhile to establish
a LP convention.  We review contributions with
nitpicking comments on spelling and punctuation.  We
have policies on indentation.  Surely we should
establish a policy for coding these operations in
a standard (and correct) way.

Trevor




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