Re: Guile 1.5.2 beta ready for testing. (and-let* etc)

2001-09-25 Thread Bill Schottstaedt
I noticed that the install command by itself (using cp for instance) worked fine, but failed in the context of install-sh, so I added set -x to install-sh and got (sorry for the verbosity...): --- .././install-sh -c -m 644 and-let-star-compat.scm \ /usr/local/share/guile/1.5.2/ice

Re: guile.info: Reading

2001-09-25 Thread Alex Schroeder
Gary Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - primitive: drain-input port >> Drain PORT's read buffers (including any pushed-back characters) >> and return the content as a single string. > > You are not the first. Would the following description be any > clearer? > > This procedure c

Re: guile.info: Reading

2001-09-25 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:10:29 +0200 guile> (call-with-input-file ".emacs" drain-input) "" here's another example, using `unread-char': guile> (define p (open-file ".emacs" "r")) guile> (define c (read-char p)) guile> c #\; guile> (unread-ch

Re: guile.info: Reading

2001-09-25 Thread Gary Houston
> From: Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:10:29 +0200 > Hm. Maybe the problem is that I don't understand what an "input and > push-back buffer". Now that you've made the analogy to buffered > output, it makes much more sense. :) > > Nevertheless, I suggest to add

Re: `debug' debug option not disable-able from ~/.guile

2001-09-25 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:09:02 -0700 thanks for the report -- that behavior is very strange! i will look into this. followups set to bug-guile. ok, i'm releasing ownership of this for now due to Other Activities. however, i've added the it

Re: guile.info: Procedures for On the Fly Evaluation

2001-09-25 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 23:19:22 +0200 In the node "Procedures for On the Fly Evaluation" of the Guile Reference manual, the primitive "read-and-eval!" is described. However, it doesn't seem to be available. Maybe it is defined in some m

Re: guile.info: syntax index entries

2001-09-25 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 12:06:48 +0200 When searching the index for "syntax" I find only two occurences: procedure->syntax and use-syntax. I think the node "The R5RS `syntax-rules' System" also requires a "syntax" related index entry. good

Re: unconditional `intptr_t'

2001-09-25 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: "Golubev I. N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:18:28 (GMT) "chars.h" uses `intptr_t' even on systems not having it. This causes compilation failure. thanks! applied to both branches. (unfortunately, i committed change log entries w/ "Golubev I. N." intead of "