Re: simple vs complex prims

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:12:08AM +0000, Matthias Radestock wrote:
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I have reviewed the changes on the 1.13 branch for distinguishing
> between pure functional and other primitives. The changes mostly look
> fine, with a few exceptions:
> 
> 1) procedures that should be declared as "simple" instead of "complex"
> 
> compact-string-rep

The version that sets as well?  I believe I made that one complex
for the one arg case.

> 
> 2) procedures that should be declared as "complex" instead of "simple"
> 
> set-box!
> set-car!
> set-cdr!
> _signal-hook!
> _signal-unhook!

Yeah, those are obvious.  Don't know why I missed them.

 
> 3) other problems
> 
> - there is a bug in thread/holds-lock? which has been there all along:
> it doesn't use its second argument. (This deserves an SF bug).
>
 
> - I think these fragments in Primitives.java can be removed:
>                      case DIV:
>   	             case NEQ:
>   	             case LT:
>   	             case GRT:
>   	             case SUB: throwArgSizeException(); return VOID;
> 
>                      case LT:
>   	             case GRT:
>   	             case NEQ: throwArgSizeException(); return VOID;
> 
> - it looks like you kept all procedures in *IO as ordinary prims, which
> I think means they are considered impure. That's fine, but we could be
> more selective.

I'll take care of these today.

> 
> - did you really mean to add NativeModuleTemplate?

Yes.  Its not used by any code, but its still a useful starting point
for library creation.  It may want to live elsewhere though, such as
the docs folder.

	Scott

> 
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
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