Re: non-scheme scripts: proposed solutions and their pros/cons

2012-11-25 Thread Ian Price
Noah Lavine writes: > For instance, I think it's really important to be able to load modules > written in > other languages. However, this may be language-dependent to a certain extent, > because > some languages (Python) already have ways to define modules. In those cases > we should > stick

Re: non-scheme scripts: proposed solutions and their pros/cons

2012-11-25 Thread Ian Price
Ian Price writes: > First, I'm going to try and write a proof-of-concept guile-elisp > executable. This shouldn't be too hard, I think, and may shed some light > on expected difficulties. I was distracted by the pfds release so it's taken me longer than it should have, but as expected, it wasn't

Re: non-scheme scripts: proposed solutions and their pros/cons

2012-11-20 Thread Ian Price
So, here's the "plan of attack" I'm envisioning for this. Right now, questions of cross-language module referencing can be ignored. I think it is mostly orthogonal to the current goal of running non-scheme scripts. First, I'm going to try and write a proof-of-concept guile-elisp executable. This

Re: non-scheme scripts: proposed solutions and their pros/cons

2012-11-20 Thread Noah Lavine
As you say, the only real solution is to do more than one of these things. For instance, I think it's really important to be able to load modules written in other languages. However, this may be language-dependent to a certain extent, because some languages (Python) already have ways to define mod

non-scheme scripts: proposed solutions and their pros/cons

2012-11-20 Thread Ian Price
As promised in the other thread, here is my list. This was really a response to the even the earlier thread I started, which I (unfortunately) didn't reply to at the time. First off, they important question "why do we need this?". Well, guile is a multi-language vm in principle, even if Scheme is