[Ecls-list] Note checking types of arguments?

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon <
pjb at informatimago.com> wrote:

>
> ;;;   In function MAKE-KEYWORD, checking types of arguments SYM.
> What does this note mean?
>

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


> I hope that in addition to checking the types of the arguments, it
> also generates the code to do the required computations... ;-)
>

Sure :-) I thought the warning is important because of the expensiveness of
the checks, which may slow down critical functions.

Juanjo

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