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Re: Core Guile bindings
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Core Guile bindings |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:39:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Panicz Maciej Godek
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2016-10-12 20:21 GMT+02:00 Thompson, David <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>>
>>> My understanding is that these symbols have been part of the default
>>> environment for so long that a lot of code would break if they were
>>> removed, so they will be staying for the foreseeable future.
>>>
>>
>> On the other hand, the fix would usually be trivial (just one use-modules
>> clause), and besides I don't think that Guile has ever had a tradition of
>> worrying too much about backwards compatibility.
>
> The Guile maintainers care very much about backwards compatibility,
> from what I've seen over the last few years.
I think I asked the same question as Panicz when I started using Guile
ca. 2004. The situation of global bindings hasn’t changed since then,
and that’s for compatibility reasons that I very much appreciate as a
user.
Ludo’.
- Core Guile bindings, Panicz Maciej Godek, 2016/10/12
- Re: Core Guile bindings, Thompson, David, 2016/10/12
- Re: Core Guile bindings, Panicz Maciej Godek, 2016/10/12
- Re: Core Guile bindings, Thompson, David, 2016/10/12
- Re: Core Guile bindings,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Core Guile bindings, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2016/10/13
- Re: Core Guile bindings, Panicz Maciej Godek, 2016/10/13
- Re: Core Guile bindings, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2016/10/14
- Re: Core Guile bindings, Robin Templeton, 2016/10/14