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Devon Schudy scripsit:
> Is it too late for comments?
I've requested finalization, but the editors have not yet granted it,
so I'm sending them a new draft meeting your points.
> The meaning of system-instance is not obvious from its name. I suspect
> this is because "system" suggests "operating system", not "host", and
> "instance" doesn't indicate that it's the *name* of the host. How
> about something containing "name", such as machine-name or
> machine-hostname or host-name or hostname?
I've changed this to machine-name. I didn't do sufficient analysis
of the Common Lisp names before proposing the SRFI.
> I'm guessing os-type is supposed to return a human-readable name of
> the OS ("Mac OS X", "Linux", "Microsoft Windows Vista", "Plan 9 from
> Bell Labs") rather than a short machine-readable name of the OS family
> ("unix", "windows"), since the latter is covered better by (features).
> In that case, it would be clearer to call it os-name. This would also
> make os-{name,version} consistent with implementation-{name,version}.
+1. Changed.
> What's the intended use of c-memory-model?
Most of your specific arguments are irrelevant, because this is a logging
API, not a discrimination API. But they convince me that there should
be a separate run-time API that lets you discover the memory model
for discrimination. We have already had complaints about the memory
model cond-expand features, because compilers that output C typically
don't know the memory model at compile time. So I've removed
c-memory-model from the SRFI.
> Other environment inquiries that might be worth including:
These are for discrimination or computation rather than logging,
and so don't fit into this SRFI, but should find a place in other
SRFIs. I've copied them to the wiki as MiscEnvironmentSchudy.
The new version is temporarily at <http://ccil.org/~cowan/temp/srfi-112.html>.
I've fixed a bunch of embarrassing typos, too.
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