[R6RS] naming convention for procedures
Anton van Straaten
anton at appsolutions.com
Thu Aug 31 03:18:11 EDT 2006
Anton van Straaten wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> I notice that the "Entry format" section (3.1) does not list "proc" or
>> "procedure" as a naming convention which implies a type restriction.
>> I'm thinking it should.
>>
>> Currently, both "proc" and "procedure" are used for this purpose in
>> different places - "procedure" most notably in arithmetic and hash
>> tables. R5RS used "proc" for e.g. map and for-each (and similarly
>> didn't mention it in the "Entry format" section.
>>
>> I'm going with "proc" for the stuff I'm responsible for, until I hear
>> otherwise.
>
>
> P.S. I forgot that "if a parameter name is also the name of a type, then
> the corresponding argument must be of the named type." That would argue
> for using "procedure". Either way, it should probably still be listed
> explicitly, if we're going to list other base type names.
>
> (I notice that R5RS only listed names that were not the name of a type.)
I've added 'proc' as a type restriction in "5.1 Entry format". It's
easy to delete if it shouldn't be there. :)
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