GNU G-Golf 0.8.0-rc9 available for testing

2024-11-13 Thread David Pirotte
Hello Guilers, The ninth release candidate of the upcoming GNU G-Golf 0.8.0 release is now available for testing: * Tarball and a GPG detached signature [*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/g-golf/g-golf-0.8.0-rc9.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/g-golf/g-golf-0.8.0-rc9.tar.gz.sig * Insta

Re: Exporting a nonexistent variable

2024-11-13 Thread Attila Lendvai
> I think Guile could report a warning if a nonexistent variable is > exported as the cause of this kind of errors may be difficult to find in > a large program. you are exporting _symbols_ (unique identities) from modules, not variables (or bindings). there are various use-cases where one want

Floating point numbers fitting into SCM object

2024-11-13 Thread Tommi Höynälänmaa
Has anyone considered implementing floating point values with e.g. 60 bits that could fit into an SCM object? They would be more efficient than double precision numbers and almost as accurate. - Tommi Höynälänmaa -- Kotisivu / Homepage: http://www.iki.fi/tohoyn/ Sähköposti / E-Mail: tommi

Re: Floating point numbers fitting into SCM object

2024-11-13 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
Hi Tommi, I haven't seen it discussed and don't rule out that it could have some value, if suitable space still exists in the current SCM encoding of types. Personally, though, my hopes are that eventually most actual computation in Guile code would be done unboxed---which is a compilation proble