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Re: Creating hooks from C
Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:
> Actually, it is: scm_make_hook does exactly this. Following your
> argument that minimizing the number of entries into libguile is also an
> important goal, removing scm_create_hook is also a step in the right
> direction :-) Moreover, the proposed full separation of object creation
> and binding would also reduce that number of entries: A very small
> number of binding functions that handle the environment and module stuff
> and work on any kind of object, plus the object creation functions for
> each type. All kinds of 'mixture' functions can be removed.
I like this. Combination of primitive functions is often better than
a collection of complex functions. For convenience, we can provide a
set of good macros, and one can create as many additional macros as
one likes...