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> From: Richard Kelsey <kelsey@xxxxxxx>
> Look, the problem here is easy:
> 1) Your SRFI demonstrably loses on certain kinds of implementations;
> 2) There is a minor change which will make it not lose.
> Why on earth not prefer number (2)????
> Clue me in. What is the minor change? A lot of different
> suggestions have been made.
I thought it was two suggestions: JNI/minor-style calling conventions
and Pika-style. And I thought that there was a rough concensus, so to
speak, that JNI/minor-style weren't the right thing for the FFI and
that the only remaining issue blocking consensus on Pika style is
aesthetics of syntax.
-t