[gambit-list] Keyword and rest parameters, and the print procedure, are now working

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Fri Mar 13 13:32:02 EDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 12:13 -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:

>  From the Changelog:
> 
> Fixed a long standing bug with handling of keyword and rest  
> parameters, which prevented the procedures print and println to work  
> reliably.

Yeah!

> Now that the print procedure is reliable and subsumes the "fringe  
> printing" algorithm of the display procedure, the behavior of the  
> display procedure has been changed so that it is closer to what other  
> Scheme systems do (i.e. lists and vectors are written with  
> parentheses, spaces, etc).

Uggh.  I've spent years writing code that used the old display
semantics, which you've argued quite strenuously is the "right
thing" (TM) to do.  Are you arguing that this version of display is now
the "right thing"?

Brad




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