Re: GNU Guile Hackers Meeting?

2009-07-20 Thread Mike Gran
> From: Ludovic Courtès > > Hello! > > Neil Jerram writes: > > >> Perhaps we should set up a GNU Guile Hackers Meeting (G²HM) by the time > >> 2.0 is released? > > > > If it works for everyone, why not? > > To make things more concrete, how about August 22--23?  It works for > Andy and me. >

GNU Guile Hackers Meeting?

2009-07-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Neil Jerram writes: >> Perhaps we should set up a GNU Guile Hackers Meeting (G²HM) by the time >> 2.0 is released? > > If it works for everyone, why not? To make things more concrete, how about August 22--23? It works for Andy and me. We could meet someplace in the Pyrénées---how nice

GNU Guile Hackers Meeting?

2009-07-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Neil Jerram writes: >> Perhaps we should set up a GNU Guile Hackers Meeting (G²HM) by the time >> 2.0 is released? > > If it works for everyone, why not? To make things more concrete, how about August 22--23? It works for Andy and me. We could meet someplace in the Pyrénées---how nice

Re: [CM] funny scheme code (fwd)

2009-07-20 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:02:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Kjetil S. Matheussen To: Bill Schottstaedt Cc: cmd...@ccrma.stanford.edu, guile-devel-requ...@gnu.org Subject: Re: [CM] funny scheme code On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Bill Schottstaedt wrote: For some reaso

Re: %nil once again

2009-07-20 Thread Clinton Ebadi
Daniel Kraft writes: > Hi, > > I think I got the test-suite as well as a basic macro implementation > (the compiler framework is really cool, that was fairly easy to do); > recursive macros do not yet work, but otherwise it looks fine. > > However, I want to tackle quasi-quotes (besides others) n

Elisp flet construct

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kraft
Hi all, in the %nil thread a suggestion was brought up to support the `flet' construct (and `flet*' as well, if we choose to do so at all, I favour) in Guile's upcoming elisp implementation that behaves just like a let for function-slot bindings, enabling dynamic scoping for them. It is no "

Re: %nil once again

2009-07-20 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Jul 20, 2009, at 04:12, Daniel Kraft wrote: No, I don't think there is. `let' can't operate on function slots. Not in the main emacs lisp implementation. However, cl-macs.el provides an "flet" macro that does work on function slots; it uses the "letf" macro which expands to include a use

Re: array handles and non-local exits

2009-07-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Neil, Neil Jerram writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: [...] >>> Array_handle_release is a bad idea. >> >> Fair enough. > > FWIW, I agree (I think with both of you) that `we might need it in > future' is not a good argument, but that API compatibility is

Re: %nil once again

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kraft
Ken Raeburn wrote: On Jul 19, 2009, at 16:10, Neil Jerram wrote: BTW, I implemented also the function bindings of symbols using this fluid-based dynamic scoping at the moment -- but on second thought, there's no scoping at all for function slots (all are global), is there? No, I don't think th