Re: bug#10522: Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation in manual

2012-02-03 Thread Ian Price
Andy Wingo writes: > Also, it seems pedantic to repeat the keyword arguments (once as > keyword, once as identifier). Surely #:foo=bar is unambiguous? Since guile use the same name for both the keyword and identifier, I'd say so. -- Ian Price "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doin

Re: bug#10522: Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation in manual

2012-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! :-) Andy Wingo skribis: > On Mon 16 Jan 2012 20:46, Bake Timmons writes: >> -@deffn {Scheme Procedure} resolve-module name [autoload=#t] [version=#f] >> [#:ensure=#t] >> +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} resolve-module name [autoload=#t [version=#f]] @ >> + [#:ensure

Re: bug#10522: Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation in manual

2012-02-03 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Bake, This patch looks great. I do have a couple of comments before applying. It would probably be useful to have input from others as well, so I'm copying guile-devel. On Mon 16 Jan 2012 20:46, Bake Timmons writes: > -@deffn {Scheme Procedure} resolve-module name [autoload=#t] [version=#f]

Localized number output with format ~h

2012-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guilers! Our beloved ‘format’ now supports locale-dependent number output, using the new ~h format specifier: ~h Localized number(1). Parameters: WIDTH, DECIMALS, PADCHAR. Like ~f, output an exact or floating point number, but do so according to the curre

Re: guile contributor setup

2012-02-03 Thread Catonano
I reply to myself. Ok, my bad, the patch was corectly applied. Sorry

Re: guile contributor setup

2012-02-03 Thread Catonano
People, thank you all for your overviews. I guess I have to go a bit off topic, here. Admittedly I'm not a Git master and I'm having an issue. I made my own brand new branch, checked out into it, I successfully applied a patch onto it. The status shows nothing to commit, the log shows the patch

Re: guile contributor setup

2012-02-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
Andy Wingo writes: > I use git, from the command line and from Emacs. When I use it from > Emacs, I use magit: http://philjackson.github.com/magit/ > > I mostly use magit to commit, and otherwise the command line to update, > rebase, etc. I use gitk sometimes to get a graphical representations

Re: [PATCH] Doc: protecting procedure->pointer pointers from GC

2012-02-03 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Looks great! I had a glance at the E17 bindings, and I see that the API > uses raw pointer objects; using “wrapped pointer types” would provide > type checking, and a nicer UI if you add printers. :-) That's an excellent point; yes, I'll do that. Using