On 24.12.20 12:45, TeXmacs wrote:
Hi,
Not all scheme functions were defined using tm-define.
The function 'translate' is defined in the glue, so it cannot be tm-overloaded.
(cut)
Thanks for the explanations
I do not think that we need a separate primitive for overloaded definitions
(as Max suggests). On the other hand, we might want to use different scoping
rules in the future. We might also automatically consider a tm-define
with a fixed number of arguments as overloading potential previous definitions
with different numbers of arguments. Maybe that was what Giovanni was
expecting.
I was not thinking about overloading when I asked the question, but only
about redefinition. That is, I was expecting that re-writing a
tm-defined function would overwrite it (and that I would not notice that
a previous definition existed).
Till now I have looked at Guile as to a "magic" that allows me to
control the behaviour of a program written in C++ through Scheme
procedures---because of this, I was expecting "uniform magic" (i.e.
anything is possible).
G.
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