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Re: scm_map and rest arguments
Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@calvados.zrz.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> I guess you don't want the comment from me, but anyway. :)
why? ;)
> [ ... ]
well -- actually, I find the idea of splitting all externally callable
functions into two (one that checks arguments and the other other, the
other does the work and does no checking) a good one.
except that for some functions it would "leak computation", because
the checking in them is nicely intermingled with processing -- but
that preserves the performance in the time complexity sense, and so is
OK ;).
so maybe it should look like this:
(assume this is eval.h)
SCM scm_map_sloppy (SCM proc, SCM arg1, SCM args);
#if (SCM_DEBUG_REST_ARGUMENTS == 0)
#define scm_map scm_map_sloppy
#else
SCM scm_map (SCM proc, SCM arg1, SCM args); /* scm_map is assumed to
check its args and call
scm_map_sloppy */
#endif
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A CONS is an object which cares.
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