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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes: > If whatever replaces structs and records wants to replace smobs as > well, it is important (IMO) to provide for one important property of > smobs, which is the ability to almost trivially wrap C structures as > smobs. This is very important, IMO, for wrapping existing code to work > with Guile. I agree. (My opinion is that we should keep the smobs as an efficient low-level mechanism. The kind of replacement for the structs which we are talking about gives overhead in the garbage collector. (But this overhead could probably be made small for most object types!)) /mdj