‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, April 23, 2021 2:49 PM, Leo Prikler <leo.prik...@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 23.04.2021, 14:22 +0000 schrieb Luis Felipe: > > > Hi, > > Are all these constants (%base-packages, for example)? Is this a Guix > > convention or does it come from Guile? Although looking at Guile's > > Variable index I see many constants in uppercase, and also some > > variables prefixed with the percent sign, while Guix' Programming > > index doesn't seem to list any uppercase names. > > The tendency to prepend variables with % certainly comes from Guile or > more generally Scheme. The upper case constants in Guile likely come > from C, where this convention is more popular and IIUC often concerns > integer constants, that are in some way important for the C side of > things (think of stuff like OPEN_READ). Since that is not a concern > for Guix, a package manager mostly written in Guile Scheme, we can > prefix our constants with a percent sign. Thanks, Leo.
