Re: The GH interface. (was: Patch for gh.h)

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> > I think r5rs functions should be included inside gh.h
> > so users stay away from libguile as possible
> 
> Yes.  What do people think of the GH interface, in general?

When I was getting started with guile, the gh_ interface was after a
short while a real hinderance.  The problem was that the documentation
(at least then) made it sound like using any scm_* functions was a bad
idea, risky, undocumented, and subject to change.

The problem is that as soon as I was doing non-trivial things in guile
on the C side (even something as simple as (< x y), I really *neeeded*
the scm_functions, but in accordance with the warning in the docs, I
spend a decent amount of time trying to avoid non gh_ functions.
After a while, I just decided to ignore the docs and started using
whatever I needed from libguile.  Then I was much happier :>

FWIW

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