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Suggestion for renamings
From: |
Dirk Herrmann |
Subject: |
Suggestion for renamings |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:49:06 +0100 (MET) |
Hello.
I suggest the following renamings (i. e. deprecating the previous names):
SCM_MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM --> SCM_FIXNUM_MAX
SCM_MOST_NEGATIVE_FIXNUM --> SCM_FIXNUM_MIN
'most-positive-fixnum --> 'fixnum-max
'most-negative-fixnum --> 'fixnum-min
These names fit better in the naming scheme that is used in limits.h. In
addition I suggest to also provide 'fixnum-bit on the scheme level. (Now
Mikael will be smiling, because not a long time ago I was argueing against
providing 'most-positive-fixnum and 'most-negative-fixnum on the scheme
level at all :-). So, why that? It is useful for guile's test-suite. I
have realized that some of the recently fixed bugs would have been
detected much earlier if it was possible to perform real boundary testing
in the test-suite instead of just performing a couple or arbitrary tests.
Especially the boundary between fixnums and bignums appeared to be of
interest there.
If nobody objects, I will apply the corresponding patch. Better
suggestions are certainly welcome.
Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann
- Suggestion for renamings,
Dirk Herrmann <=