[gambit-list] why's meroon and jazz so special?

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Tue Jun 16 22:23:50 EDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 19:04 -0700, lowly coder wrote:
> I was recently looking at mem.c and see that theyre are special
> constants for object types ... and i saw #define's for meroon and jazz
> -- why are they so special to be in the C part of Gambit?

It allows a very fast, safe, check whether something is a meroon (and I
presume jazz) object as a distinct type.  And I suppose that Guillaume
and I at some point suggested to Marc (perhaps even suggested the simple
patches) that allowed this to happen.

Brad




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