Re: SRFI 228: withdrawing on 2022-10-21
Marc Nieper-WiÃkirchen 14 Oct 2022 16:36 UTC
Am Fr., 14. Okt. 2022 um 18:29 Uhr schrieb Daphne Preston-Kendal
<xxxxxx@nonceword.org>:
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> I will delete comparison-procedures and express a wish in the ‘future work’ section for a SRFI providing it. (Despite what I wrote on the SRFI 237 list, a hygiene-breaking macro, automatically defining xyz=?, xyz<? etc from a given base name xyz, might be the best solution …)
Suggestion: Something like:
(define-comparisons PREFIX COMPARATOR-EXPRESSION SYMBOL ...)
where SYMBOL is one of <. >, <=, etc.
> The other remaining issue is with the implementation, which I will fix asap
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> On 14 Oct 2022, at 08:34, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Two more comments:
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> - The last sentence of make-sum-comparator is a copy-and-paste error.
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> - Change comparison-procedures into a macro (where you can have
> keyword-like arguments as much as you would like to have) or replace
> it with a macro define-comparators (that can implicitly create names)
> to make it actually usable. Or drop it and possibly postpone it to a
> future SRFI (it does not have much to do with the make-???-comparator
> procedures anyway
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> Am Fr., 14. Okt. 2022 um 01:52 Uhr schrieb Arthur A. Gleckler
> <xxxxxx@speechcode.com>:
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> Hello, Daphne. I haven't received any response from you about SRFI 228 since May, so I'm planning to withdraw it on 2022-10-21 unless I hear from you.
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> There are only a few unresolved email threads:
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> Making the `comparison-procedures` procedure more usable
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> Some remarks on the implementation
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> SRFI 228: Abstract still mentions macros (which were removed)
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> If you like, I can send you an archive of those.
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> Thanks very much for your contributions. I look forward to hearing from you soon.