stable-2.0 patch: Updating NEWS for 2.0.12 - draft

2016-06-23 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, Attached... I fixed the 2 tipos reported by Neil, thanks Neil. Cheers, David From cb4fb3dd3386044fd063043629c77f16b2177227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Pirotte Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:59:33 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Updating NEWS for 2.0.12 - draft * NEWS: Updating NEWS for 2.0.1

Re: a draft for the top of the NEWS for 2.0.12

2016-06-23 Thread David Pirotte
Hi Neil, > Nice work! I noted a couple of typos : > - documention should be documentation  > - miss behaviour should be misbehaviour.  Thanks! David pgpa8DLURlUn4.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: bug#16357: insufficient print abbreviation in error messages

2016-06-23 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 23 Jun 2016 18:57, Mark H Weaver writes: > Andy Wingo writes: >> Or, we could use print states. But print states are not so great and >> ideally we would remove them eventually. > > We will need print states, or something like them, to support writing > cyclic data structures as required

Re: bug#16357: insufficient print abbreviation in error messages

2016-06-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andy Wingo writes: > Or, we could use print states. But print states are not so great and > ideally we would remove them eventually. We will need print states, or something like them, to support writing cyclic data structures as required by R7RS. Mark

Re: GNU Guile 2.1.3 released

2016-06-23 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 23 Jun 2016 14:59, Daniel Llorens writes: >>> We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.1.3. >> >> Tried on my Mac OS 10.10.5 against Macports 2.3.4 w/ gcc-mp-5. >> make check generated FAIL for test-language and test-stack-overflow and >> stopped working after test-stack-overflow

Re: GNU Guile 2.1.3 released

2016-06-23 Thread Daniel Llorens
>> On Jun 19, 2016, at 2:31 AM, Andy Wingo wrote: >> >> We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.1.3. > > Tried on my Mac OS 10.10.5 against Macports 2.3.4 w/ gcc-mp-5. > configure went OK > make went OK > make check generated FAIL for test-language and test-stack-overflow and > stopp

Re: anyone define port types?

2016-06-23 Thread William ML Leslie
On 23 June 2016 at 20:43, Andy Wingo wrote: > On Thu 23 Jun 2016 11:24, Chris Vine writes: >> Secondly, as I understand it in the end you want pre-emptive "green" >> threads for guile, whereas my code equates to co-operative >> multi-tasking, whilst also working with native threads. I must come

Re: anyone define port types?

2016-06-23 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 23 Jun 2016 11:24, Chris Vine writes: > A few things on that. First, there will always be a use for an event > loop to do event-loopy things, irrespective of whether and how a > coroutine interface is put around it. Sometimes you want to abstract > things away, sometimes you don't. Yep!

Re: anyone define port types?

2016-06-23 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Chris Vine : > First, there will always be a use for an event loop to do event-loopy > things, irrespective of whether and how a coroutine interface is put > around it. Sometimes you want to abstract things away, sometimes you > don't. Callback hell is my preferred programming paradigm. Any attem

Re: anyone define port types?

2016-06-23 Thread Chris Vine
On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:36:48 +0200 Andy Wingo wrote: [snip] > Excellent. Though I think that eventually we will want to bless one > of these concurrency patterns as the default one, we're a long way > away from that, and even if we do bless one I think we will always > want to allow people to exp

Re: anyone define port types?

2016-06-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Little typo: On Thu 23 Jun 2016 09:36, Andy Wingo writes: > The only drawback that I know of with the strategy of simply allowing > users to use Guile's I/O primitives (e.g., `read-line') and assuming > that they'll suspend when they block is that not all of the primitives > that you would like

Re: a draft for the top of the NEWS for 2.0.12

2016-06-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Nice work! I noted a couple of typos : - documention should be documentation  - miss behaviour should be misbehaviour.     Neil   Original Message   From: David Pirotte Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:46 To: guile-devel Subject: a draft for the top of the NEWS for 2.0.12 Heya, Here below a d

Re: anyone define port types?

2016-06-23 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 23 Jun 2016 00:44, Chris Vine writes: > I have stirred myself and installed guile-2.1.3. On looking more at > the suspendable ports code it became obvious and I haven't needed to > adopt anything like ethreads with its "thread" abstraction: instead I > have kept the approach already adopt