Re: [ANN]: boot-9 slimming r2

[Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@viewlogic.com> writes:

> Greg Harvey wrote:
> > 
> > Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes:
> > >
> > > Note: ice-9 needs to be replaced with something more sensible
> > > (guile-core is my preference, tho guile-system would also be good).
> > > This is the last revision that will be compatable with the current
> > > naming.
> > 
> 
> I think we previously hashed out that (guile ...) is a good namespace
> for
> modules that are part of Guile.

Just (guile foo), or something more (guile core foo) ? My first
thought was that using guile might hose things if you were to have
/.../share in your load path... I'll give that a try today.
 
> > There's also a new set of numbers.[ch] up at
> > http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/guile/numbers-r1.tar.gz
> > 
> > This modifies numbers to replace the functions previously defined as
> > $foo to foo, and operate on real numbers. With this, the dependancy on
> > transcend for proper operation (for the most part) is removed, though
> > if you want to use complex numbers, you'll have to do a
> > (use-modules (ice-9 transcend))
> 
> Given it's functionality, (ice-9 transcend) is a poor name for this
> module,
> perhaps (ice-9 complex) or something would be better. In general I think
> it is bad for the default environment to support certain math functions
> for
> only a subset of their actual range. I suspect the RnRS standards are
> vague
> enough to allow that though.

My thinking is that these aren't operations that are used (or needed)
all that often (and certainly not as often as the operations on real
numbers), so, while it may not be the nicest way of going about it, it
isn't a bad tradeoff to put the cost of having the functions on the
people who actually use them, while still providing lightweight
versions for average use. And yes, transcend is an awful name, I'm
going to change that :).

-- 
Greg