Re: guile: going the way of DEATH
Dirk Herrmann (dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:40:25 +0200 (CEST)
> > - 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