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-/* Procedure-with-setter
-
- Four representations for procedure-with-setters were
- considered before selecting this one:
-
- 1. A closure where the CODE and ENV slots are used to represent
- the getter and a new SETTER slot is used for the setter. The
- original getter is stored as a `getter' procedure property. For
- closure getters, the CODE and ENV slots contains a copy of the
- getter's CODE and ENV slots. For subr getters, the CODE contains
- a call to the subr.
-
- 2. A compiled closure with a call to the getter in the cclo
- procedure. The getter and setter are stored in slots 1 and 2.
-
- 3. An entity (i.e. a struct with an associated procedure) with a
- call to the getter in the entity procedure and the setter stored
- in slot 0. The original getter is stored in slot 1.
-
- 4. A new primitive procedure type supported in the evaluator. The
- getter and setter are stored in a GETTER and SETTER slot. A call
- to this procedure type results in a retrieval of the getter and a
- jump back to the correct eval dispatcher.
-
- Representation 4 was selected because of efficiency and
- simplicity.
-
- Rep 1 has the advantage that there is zero penalty for closure
- getters, but primitive getters will get considerable overhead
- because the procedure-with-getter will be a closure which calls
- the getter.
-
- Rep 3 has the advantage that a GOOPS accessor can be a subclass of
- <procedure-with-setter>, but together with rep 2 it suffers from a
- three level dispatch for non-GOOPS getters:
-
- cclo/struct --> dispatch proc --> getter
-
- This is because the dispatch procedure must take an extra initial
- argument (cclo for rep 2, struct for rep 3).
-
- Rep 4 has the single disadvantage that it uses up one tc7 type
- code, but the plan for uniform vectors will very likely free tc7
- codes, so this is probably no big problem. Also note that the
- GETTER and SETTER slots can live directly on the heap, using the
- new four-word cells. */
-
-#define SCM_PROCEDURE_WITH_SETTER_P(obj) (!SCM_IMP(obj) && (SCM_TYP7 (obj) == scm_tc7_pws))
-#define SCM_PROCEDURE(obj) SCM_CELL_OBJECT_1 (obj)
-#define SCM_SETTER(obj) SCM_CELL_OBJECT_2 (obj)
-
-
-
SCM_API SCM scm_c_make_subr (const char *name, long type, SCM (*fcn)());
SCM_API SCM scm_c_make_subr_with_generic (const char *name, long type,