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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove ##sys# prefix from lambda-info name


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove ##sys# prefix from lambda-info names of library procedures
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:54:40 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Christian Kellermann scripsit:

> Well deprecation is intended to give users of said procedures a heads
> up and allows them to change their code in advance. Since this is all
> internal API, I don't see the merit of such a process.

If only it were internal API, I'd say nothing.  But it is de facto
external API as well, albeit undocumented.  This is a Bad Thing.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        address@hidden
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  deity'll donate doughnuts                   --English version by Muke Tever
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