Re: Exporting a nonexistent variable

> program.scm:6:3: In procedure main: > Unbound variable: myproc there are two `myproc` symbols at play here, and you're trying to dereference the one that has no value bound to. you've been warned prior to this. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- You cannot wake up someone who is only pretending to be asleep. — Indian proverb

Re: Lexically bound macro, with lexically bound transformer

> I guess the right answer is to use functions instead of macros? if you're not sure about the answer, then it's most probably yes. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very ex

Re: [PATCH] The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

and solve the decentralized financing of scientists. (pseudonymity may also be needed in certain fields, but lasting pseuconimity is a much harder nut to crack) and let me finish with a hand-picked quote this time: -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” — Voltaire (1694–1778), 'The Age of Louis XIV'

Re: Name of the standard library

debugging facilities than what guile provides. it was so far from my expectations that i considered it easier to port guix to another scheme. (there's no need to educate me, though. since then i learned the differences between the CL and scheme worlds, and understood the effort it would tak

Re: [PATCH] The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

og in this fight. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” — Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

RE: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

falls into the kludge category, i.e. it's ok if it's clearly marked as a kludge, and if it incurrs little extra maintenance costs. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command

Re: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

> > IOW, if you don't want changes in your dependencies, then just don't > update them. > > This does not work. > > You often have to update dependencies for security reasons. Got a new > gnutls or openssl or openssh with new cyphers you need to have a working > program — will Guile 3 get

Re: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

ent against retaining an ice-9 alias. and if it can be done without much of a maintenance burden, then possibly even indefinitely.) -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “In your journey to healing, you will learn to appreciate the many faceted qualities of others. Your early impre

Re: Define works different when Compile and Eval

ation of DEFINE (wrongly) evaluates the value in the newly updated environment (as opposed to the "parent" environment, i.e. the one before the definition has been added/set). i briefly tired to find the place where DEFINE is compiled to check this hypothesis in the code, but i couldn

RE: exception from inside false-if-exception?

unwound prior to handling the error. i even suspect that a continuation barrier may somehow hide, or neutralize my w-e-h higher up on the stack, and the exception from DISPLAY-BACKTRACE ends up at the fibers scheduler instead of my w-e-h due to the above. but with that i'm again at the fron

Re: Define works different when Compile and Eval

uile/manual/guile.html#Eval-When compile does not evaluate (aka load) the definitions, it only compiles them. alternatively, you yourself can explicitly call the lambda returned by compile. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “A politician is someone asking you to trust them more with

RE: exception from inside false-if-exception?

7;ve attached a new test.scm that contains the output of two runs, one with 3.0.9, and one with guile HEAD (more specifically, guile-next in guix, which is almost guile HEAD). HTH, -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apol

RE: exception from inside false-if-exception?

by guile. if someone wants to investigate further, then i'm also attaching a new version of my test.scm that behaves in an unexpected way on 3.0.9, but not on HEAD (more specifically on guile-next in guix, which is a rather recent commit). HTH, -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7

RE: exception from inside false-if-exception?

corators are in CL.) this is user code, sorry. it's something we added to be able to decorate backtraces with domain-specific data. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- information we gather and create overflows our means of managing it our ppl r only happenstancely synergistic

RE: exception from inside false-if-exception?

d some message -- any message -- to this short-circuit code. please extend the doc of WITH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER with a warning that explains the dynamic extent of the binding of the handler at the time the handler is called, and any possible short circuits installed in guile against that. -- • at

Re: RFC: Changing the initial value of %default-port-conversion-strategy

times over in time *not* spent on debugging. and there's really no excuse in a language that has some form of exceptions. just some 0.02, -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins

Re: exception from inside false-if-exception?

valent, to be colored bright red in emacs. and it doesn't even have the pre/post-unwind-hook baggage. thank you both for the quick feedback! -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end

exception from inside false-if-exception?

s being called with a non-string? i didn't notice anything obviously wrong around SCM_VALIDATE_STRING. any hint is appreciated, -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit.