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Re: [PATCH] Implement SRFI-111 Boxes
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] Implement SRFI-111 Boxes |
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Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:57:20 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:
> Has it been considered to coalesce the box type with Guile's "variable"
> type? I can see two concrete differences:
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> * External representation (*not* specified by SRFI-111)
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> * Variables can be "unbound" (empty), boxes can't
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> So we could get away with making the box API consist of aliases to a
> subset of the variable API and still conform to SRFI-111.
Even though both types are box-like, they represent conceptually
different things, so I think it’s better to keep them disjoint.
Ludo’.