Re: heads up: rename from (rnrs bytevector) to (rnrs bytevectors)

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 01 Jun 2010 16:01, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > That’s fine with me, though I wouldn’t want to change it when the new > RnRS bytevector API du jour comes out [0]. Yeah. I really don't know why they are bothering about this at all. The blob API has no advantages that I can see,

Re: Lightning Bindings

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
Greets, On Tue 01 Jun 2010 16:55, Noah Lavine writes: >> I tend to think that Ludovic's proposal, or something like it, is the >> most practical means to get a portable JIT compiler going; though I >> don't really know. > > You may be right; although I think actually with the FFI, it would be >

Re: heads up: rename from (rnrs bytevector) to (rnrs bytevectors)

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 01 Jun 2010 15:02, Julian Graham writes: > (If people are opposed to adding the `:version' keyword to the module > definition and moving the file into modules/rnrs/6/ To be clear: I'm opposed to moving it to modules/rnrs/6, but I'm OK with adding #:version. I have done this in git. Please

request for hack: readline fixes

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello list, It would be really great if someone could get to the bottom of our readline support and fix a couple things. * Tab-completion: Works great for functions, not so much for arguments? If at the repl you type `(string-' and press tab, you get a list of symbols bound in the current

Re: heads up: rename from (rnrs bytevector) to (rnrs bytevectors)

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 01 Jun 2010 15:02, Julian Graham writes: >> Somehow we had the name of (rnrs bytevectors) wrong -- it was (rnrs >> bytevector). I've renamed it in git, which should make it into the >> 1.9.11 prerelease tonight. Sorry for the confusion! > > While you're looking at that, what do you want to

relatedly! RFH: make C-d in debugger not terminate process

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello! I am currently poking about to make it possible to run a recursive repl, from the debugger, in the context of the error. It would be nice to be able to exit said recursive repl via Control-D, and it would likewise be nice to be able to exit the debugger via Control-D. I'm sure this is possi

Re: Programs are nameless

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello On Tue 01 Jun 2010 23:25, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > ‘procedure-name’ doesn’t currently work on VM programs. It may be due > to commit bdf7759c, which commented out ‘maybe-name-value!’ calls in > psyntax. > > Why are these commented out? Is there some bootstrapping issue inv

Re: request for hack: readline fixes

2010-06-02 Thread Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
On Tue, Jun 01 2010, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hello list, > > It would be really great if someone could get to the bottom of our > readline support and fix a couple things. > > * Tab-completion: Works great for functions, not so much for arguments? > >If at the repl you type `(string-' and press t

Re: Lightning Bindings

2010-06-02 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Noah Lavine () Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:57:15 -0400 I didn't realize GCC had a Lisp interface. It has a recently (2009?) approved run-time plug-in system, for which MELT is one example. Incidently, Emacs also has also recently won approval for the development of a analogous architecture, so...