Re: A reference type Peter Bex 19 Aug 2022 12:01 UTC
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 12:53:57PM +0200, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> Your extensive knowledge is always very helpful, John!
>
> So, let us call the objects "locatives" instead.  This also has the
> advantage that the getter can be reasonably named "locative-ref" as would
> be custom in Scheme.

Looks like your proposal is quite similar to what we have in CHICKEN.
I would argue to have a look at our API first, since the proposal has
some API parts that have the same names as CHICKEN's, but are
incompatible in their definition.

https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Module%20(chicken%20locative)

From a quick scan, at least make-locative is different.

Cheers,
Peter