<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pjb@informatimago.com">pjb@informatimago.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>;;; In function MAKE-KEYWORD, checking types of arguments SYM.<br>What does this note mean?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That means a possibly expensive type check for SYM was inserted at the beginning of the function. In this case it is possibly ensuring that SYM has the right type for STRING</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I hope that in addition to checking the types of the arguments, it<br>
also generates the code to do the required computations... ;-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure :-) I thought the warning is important because of the expensiveness of the checks, which may slow down critical functions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Juanjo</div></div><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com">http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com</a><br>