Re: Remaining work on SRFI 196
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 27 Aug 2020 02:17 UTC
On 2020-08-26 21:17 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> I've removed the constraint on *end*. The text has always said that *end*
> is an exclusive upper bound, and that should be enough.
>
> I'm still not convinced that the indexer constraint is too restrictive,
> given that I do not want to provide support compound indexers. SRFI 179
> does allow them, but they are restricted to linear transforms only, so that
> they are just as efficient as simple indexers.
>
> I've filed a finalization PR with Arthur.
In that case, I'll just need to make a small adjustment to the
bounds-checking in numeric-range. Otherwise, the implementation is
ready for finalization.
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