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Re: guile: going the way of DEATH

> > 	- What's the point in having gh_number_p but not gh_integer_p and the
> >         like, if people will need to mix the APIs anyway ?
> 
> Arg! there IS a gh_number_p() -- but you have to look at the source code
> to find it, this time I looked at the info files.

He wasn't claiming that there was no gh_number_p. The problem is, that
there is no gh_integer_p. From the gh_ API you can figure out whether a
SCM represents a number, but you can't say whether it will fit into a C
int type (or long, etc.).

Best regards, 
Dirk Herrmann