On Thursday, May 6, 2021 11:16 AM, Taylan Kammer <taylan.kam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05.05.2021 15:47, Luis Felipe wrote: > > > Hi Taylan, > > On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 6:39 AM, Taylan Kammer taylan.kam...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > > On 04.05.2021 10:31, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > > > > > > > The first 2 tests are surprisingly passing. This is also the reason, > > > > why I used > > > > test-assert and manually wrote the (equal? ...) in the last test, to > > > > see, > > > > whether it makes any difference. Indeed it does. > > > > > > The reference implementation of SRFI-64 (which is what Guile ships) > > > doesn't seem to be written very well. > > > I have an alternative implementation here, if you're interested: > > > https://github.com/TaylanUB/scheme-srfis > > > I'm not sure if the newest Guile is able to run it out of the box > > > though. You might have to create some .scm symlinks to the .sld files. > > > > For what it's worth, I know about your implementation for a long time, but > > I've never tried to use it because I don't know where to start. Is it not > > possible to package these libraries so that users can simply install them > > as any other guile library? Say: > > $ guix install r7rs-srfi-64 > > I see that Guile can be run with the "--r7rs" option "to better support > > R7RS"... > > Hmm, I had hoped that with the newest Guile, simply adding the repo's > root directory to the load path would work, at least when invoked with > the --r7rs switch, but it seems that Guile still chokes on library name > parts that are integers. That's an incompatibility with r7rs that's not > mentioned in the manual. Ah, good to know. > I guess the only way to make the modules work is to rename all the files > and change the library names to not use integer parts. > > Maybe I'll make a guile-compatible standalone package for the SRFI-64 > implementation, since that's the most fancy thing in that repo. > > I might do it in the following days since I'm on a vacation, but... the > vacation is supposed to be a vacation. :-) Work has been really burning > me out in the last year. Yeah, you should not work on vacation. > If someone else feels like trying: all you have to do is rename .sld > files to .scm, change the integer parts of the module names to symbols > (e.g. s64 instead of 64), and rename the directory '64' accordingly. That helps. I might even try it myself, thanks. (But, really, at least for me, it would be ideal to have these libraries packaged.)
