Re: [PATCH] (Symbol Primitives): Add symbol, list->symbol, symbol-append.

2009-05-30 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: > Did I do this right? If so, could someone apply this patch? I > didn't quite follow all the details in doc/maint/README, perhaps > because I'm on Windows, and I don't use emacs. Let me know. oops. here's the patch. - Mark 0001-Symbol-Primitives-Add-symbol-list-sym

Re: low-hanging SRFI fruit (SRFI-98)

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Julian Graham writes: >> Looks good to me, please go ahead. > > Find attached a patch that includes the implementation previously > attached, plus unit tests and additions to the NEWS and modules.texi > files. > > > Regards, > Julian Hi Julian, Thanks for doing this. The code and test all look

Re: syncase-in-boot-9 merged to master; savannah down

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > Hey all, > > With Ludovic's blessing, I went ahead and merged syncase-in-boot-9 into > master. Apologies that I haven't reviewed this yet; I am still planning to. > Unfortunately I can't push it, because savannah is down. It appears they > have had catastrophic disk failure

Re: srfi-18 and the vm

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > Hi Neil, > > On Mon 25 May 2009 23:57, Neil Jerram writes: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Andy Wingo writes: >>> For loading uncompiled scripts, things will be slower, unless your modules #:use-syntax some other transformer. I don't know where

Re: low-hanging SRFI fruit (SRFI-98)

2009-05-30 Thread Julian Graham
Hi Neil, > Am I correct in thinking that you can commit this yourself? - subject > to Savannah coming back up, of course.  If so, please do that after > incorporating the following points. Can I? As far as I know I haven't been granted the appropriate permissions, but I'll look into it. > That

Re: r6rs libraries, round two

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Julian Graham writes: > Hi Guilers, > > I'd like to take another stab at getting R6RS library support in, this > time by extending the capabilities of the module system. Here's what > I've got in mind to start with: > > 1. Add an optional `version' field to the module record type Sounds good.

Re: low-hanging SRFI fruit (SRFI-98)

2009-05-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Julian, I concur with Neil's review. One more thing: Julian Graham writes: > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Changes in 1.9.0: > * New modules (see the manual for details) > > ** `(srfi srfi-18)', multithreading support > +** `(srfi srfi-98)', an interface to environment var

Re: r6rs libraries, round two

2009-05-30 Thread Julian Graham
Hi Neil, > I didn't follow why we decided that, but it feels wrong to me.  (It > seems to me that Guile should be able to handle loading ((foo) v1) and > ((foo) v2) simultaneously as easily as it could handle loading > ((foo-v1)) and ((foo-v2)) simultaneously.) I guess I should look up > the previ

Re: [PATCH] (Symbol Primitives): Add symbol, list->symbol, symbol-append.

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark Polesky writes: > Mark Polesky wrote: > >> Did I do this right? If so, could someone apply this patch? I >> didn't quite follow all the details in doc/maint/README, perhaps >> because I'm on Windows, and I don't use emacs. Let me know. Hi Mark, Many thanks for contributing this patch. As

Re: low-hanging SRFI fruit (SRFI-98)

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Julian Graham writes: > Hi Neil, > >> Am I correct in thinking that you can commit this yourself? - subject >> to Savannah coming back up, of course.  If so, please do that after >> incorporating the following points. > > Can I? As far as I know I haven't been granted the appropriate > permissio

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, syncase-in-boot-9, updated. e3c5df539640a36eb1493f581087d54a4714f337

2009-05-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! "Andy Wingo" writes: > commit 34f3d47df9311852ba7eab6f8d1c36535c3774dd > Author: Andy Wingo > Date: Thu May 28 14:49:33 2009 +0200 [...] > * module/ice-9/boot-9.scm: Remove #' read-hash extension, which actually > didn't do anything at all. It's been there since 1997, but no G

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, string_abstraction2, updated. 4d9dfb466ad6fdc9bd42ae7ed5a47dcedec5981a

2009-05-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! "Michael Gran" writes: > commit 4d9dfb466ad6fdc9bd42ae7ed5a47dcedec5981a > Author: Michael Gran > Date: Tue May 26 08:56:06 2009 -0700 > > move reader encoding parameters to fluids > > * libguile/ports.c: only use accessors functions for > reader encoding paramet

Publishing the manual...

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Jerram
I should let you all know that Brian Gough has approached me about publishing the Guile manual. Brian is a fairly well known person in the GNU project; for example he organised a GNU Hackers Meeting that I attended last year in Bristol, and he's worked for some time on the GNU Scientific Library.