a separate configuration language
Richard Kelsey
(23 Feb 1999 01:31 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language
sperber@xxxxxx
(26 Feb 1999 14:17 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language
Richard Kelsey
(26 Feb 1999 16:37 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language
sperber@xxxxxx
(26 Feb 1999 16:52 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language
Richard Kelsey
(26 Feb 1999 20:00 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language
sperber@xxxxxx
(28 Feb 1999 09:18 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language sperber@xxxxxx (01 Mar 1999 15:47 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language
Lars Thomas Hansen
(01 Mar 1999 16:03 UTC)
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Re: a separate configuration language sperber@xxxxxx 01 Mar 1999 15:46 UTC
To follow up, here are clarified/corrected paragraphs describing COND-IMPLEMENTS, relative to the editors' suggestion for revising SRFI 0: Definition: If one the clauses has a satisfiable implementation requirement, COND-IMPLEMENTS must expand into the body of a clause with a satisfiable requirement. (I.e., it must not expand into the ELSE clause in that case.) It is unspecified into which body the COND-IMPLEMENTS form expands if several clauses have satisfiable requirements. Example: To demonstrate the utility of the conditional construct, consider the following example: The programmer is implementing some abstraction which can use function aaa from SRFI a or can use function bbb from SRFI b. If the programmer does not care which implementation her code uses, she can just write: (cond-implements (srfi-a ... aaa ...) (srfi-b ... bbb ...)) In this case, the Scheme system, if it implements both SRFI a and SRFI b, will pick a branch based on its own preference, supposedly the more efficient or easier-to-load implementation. It may also be that the programmer has a preference for SRFI a, maybe because the program can provide more functionality in this case. Only if SRFI a is unavailable, she wants SRFI b. Here is the code: (cond-implements (srfi-a ... aaa ...) (else (cond-implements (srfi-b ... bbb ...)))) This works because COND-IMPLEMENTS must choose a non-ELSE branch if possible. -- Cheers =8-} Mike