> From: "Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen" <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> > Date: Sunday, August 16, 2020 7:41 AM > > Am So., 16. Aug. 2020 um 14:30 Uhr schrieb <xxxxxx@ancell-ent.com>: >> >>> From: Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> >>> Date: Sunday, August 16, 2020 1:31 AM >>> >>>> I also don't like set, but consider it a placeholder for now, we should >>>> be able to come up with a better name. >>>> >>>> But before going to that effort, we have to agree on the need for it. >>>> If it's not mandatory, it's a */very/* different thing, and while >>>> "convention" is a synonym for me in context, "protocol" isn't particularly. >>> >>> IMHO the purpose of 'set is to give meaning to 'code/number and >>> 'name/symbol. 'code/number and 'name/symbol make sense without 'set, in >>> the same way that a grammatically correct but taken-out-of-context >>> sentence makes sense in English. It refers to something definite but >>> since you lack the context, you don't know what specifically. >>> >>> In that sense 'set is not technically mandatory yet is obviously useful. >> >> Thus we have incompatible visions for SRFI 198. > > I have to admit that I haven't found the time to follow all > discussions thoroughly (and just looked locally at posts). So could > anyone of you describe in a few words what the current status of SRFI > 198 is The above conflicting visions, with John at least in part agreeing with mine, need to be resolved. I think we've discussed the merits, asked the necessary questions to each other, we cannot reach consensus, an executive decision by John is needed to move forward. Ditto for the collections used as inputs, and output for foreign-status-plist/alist/whatever. Shall we stick with alists, move to plists, and for make-foreign-status and raise-foreign-error, require one of those two, or just have the key/value pairs be optional arguments, e.g. (raise-foreign-error 'set 'generic-c-lib 'subset 'libsodium etc.). > and why it is a must for SRFI 170? What is the problem with SRFI 35 > compound conditions, which equally pack various data into an error > object? "Above my pay grade." John? - Harold
