Re: music-function name shadowing a Scheme keyword

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi Urs,

you might import the SRFI-1 span-function and give that a new name. The 
counterpart-function to span is break, which "conflicts with the break 
binding established by while (see while do). Applications wanting to use 
break from within a while loop will need to make a new define under a 
different name."
You might provide such an alternative name for "span".

Personally I'd prefer another name for your function, because 
srfi-1-span is "prior art" ;-)
and *now* you can give it a name that does not conflict.

Jan-Peter


Am 26.06.2018 um 22:43 schrieb Urs Liska:
> Hi all,
>
> I've mostly completed the implementation of a "span" module that 
> provides the \span music-function, which is roughly the same as the HTML 
> <span class=""> element.
>
> Nearly everything works fine by now, and I've been very happy with the 
> name - until I realized that a music-function \span can be invoked from 
> Scheme with (span), and that this shadows the Scheme procedure span from 
> SRFI-1.
>
> Am I right to assume that this *can* work - as long as no user of my 
> package will think of using the original Scheme function?
>
> Is there any way to get around this without renaming my music function?
>
> Urs
>
>
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