Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 22:50, Neil Jerram writes: > >> - "gel" is short; and it's the name of Guile before it was Guile; and >> suggests sticking things together; and AFAIK isn't already being used >> for anything else; and has similar key positions as "gdo", so is >> equa

Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools)

2011-03-30 Thread nalaginrut
> Howdy, > > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Andy Wingo writes: > > > >> "Guido, compile my-file.scm." > > > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) > > OK, point taken. Too bad though! > > I have another proposal, but first I want to elaborate on why I think > g

Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools)

2011-03-30 Thread Noah Lavine
The coolness is irrefutable. :-) On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Andy Wingo wrote: > Howdy, > > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: >> >>> "Guido, compile my-file.scm." >> >> Is the pun[*] intended?  :-) > > OK, point taken.  Too bad though!

on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools)

2011-03-30 Thread Andy Wingo
Howdy, On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> "Guido, compile my-file.scm." > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) OK, point taken. Too bad though! I have another proposal, but first I want to elaborate on why I think guile-tools is a silly name.

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-30 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 21 Mar 2011 22:50, Neil Jerram writes: > - "gel" is short; and it's the name of Guile before it was Guile; and > suggests sticking things together; and AFAIK isn't already being used > for anything else; and has similar key positions as "gdo", so is > equally easy to type. Gel is go

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > This is fun :) > > Here are a few threads the PLT folk had: > >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.devel/2540 >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.devel/2693/focus=2715 >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.devel/2775 Well indeed, tha

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 21 Mar 2011 15:10, Neil Jerram writes: > On 21 March 2011 12:16, Barry Fishman wrote: >> Andy Wingo writes: >> >>> On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste.  I’d als

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Neil Jerram
On 21 March 2011 12:16, Barry Fishman wrote: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to >>> everyone’s taste.  I’d also be happy with a shorter name, though. >> >> OK.  Anyo

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread dsmich
Barry Fishman wrote: > Andy Wingo writes: > > > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to > >> everyone’s taste. I’d also be happy with a shorter name, though. > > > > OK. Anyone have any

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread David Pirotte
Le Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:27:13 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit : > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Andy Wingo writes: > > > >> it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: "Guido, compile > >> my-file.scm." > > > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) > > Not r

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
On Mon, Mar 21 2011, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hey! > > Andy Wingo writes: > >> it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: "Guido, compile >> my-file.scm." > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) A more or less obvious pun (but not as smooth grammatically) would be beguile(d)... "beguiled in

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Barry Fishman
Andy Wingo writes: > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to >> everyone’s taste. I’d also be happy with a shorter name, though. > > OK. Anyone have any other good short names? If you like short

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread nalaginrut
> > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > > > Andy Wingo writes: > > > > > >> it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: "Guido, compile > > >> my-file.scm." > > > > > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) > > > > Not really, no :) > > > > > FWIW I’m happy

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread nalaginrut
> On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Andy Wingo writes: > > > >> it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: "Guido, compile > >> my-file.scm." > > > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) > > Not really, no :) > > > FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name an

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: "Guido, compile >> my-file.scm." > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) Not really, no :) > FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey! Andy Wingo writes: > it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: "Guido, compile > my-file.scm." Is the pun[*] intended? :-) FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste. I’d also be happy with a shorter name, though. Thanks, Ludo’

proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-19 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello all, Like many of you, I am enamored of the "git style" of command line interfaces: "git add this", "git commit that", etc. Guile has guile-tools, which, though not well documented, does support this. "guile-tools compile foo" loads the `(scripts compile)' module, and punts argument proces