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Re: SCM_LENGTH -> SCM_STRING_LENGTH etc?
From: |
Dirk Herrmann |
Subject: |
Re: SCM_LENGTH -> SCM_STRING_LENGTH etc? |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:52:40 +0200 (MEST) |
On 22 Sep 2000, Keisuke Nishida wrote:
> I think there was a plan to rename macros and functions in more
> readable and consistent way. When will it happen? May I help?
Finding a consistent but still comfortable to use naming scheme is
difficult. We have had some discussions about it, but we have not yet
come to a final conclusion. Another point that makes the discussion
itself difficult is the backwards compatibility problem. For example, the
SCM_CHARS macro can be expected to be widely used :-( Deprecating such
things will influence a lot of code.
> And how about moving deprecated stuff to a single file all together?
> It makes the header files cleaner.
I think, it is sufficient if deprecated stuff is collected at the bottom
of the header files. Deprecated stuff in C files may depend on static
code of the same C file, and thus could not easily be moved into a
separate file.
Best regards
Dirk