some notes from after the recent elisp SoC

2011-02-10 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, Here are some notes that Brian Templeton had sent me at the end of the recent SoC that didn't make it to the list, for posterity. recent changes pushed: * Unbound fluids should be ready for inclusion in Guile (I also added `variable-unset!' for "undefining" variables) * Function b

[PATCH] Miscellaneous fixes and improvements

2011-02-10 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello all, Here are some miscellaneous fixes. The only non-trivial patch here is the last one, which includes (among other things) another rework of the testing framework for number-theoretic division operators. More sigificant patches are on the way after this. Best, Mark >From 88

Re: [PATCH] Improved exactness handling for complex number parsing

2011-02-10 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > One nitpick: it would be nice if (part of) the documentation that’s in > the commit logs were in the source files, so one sees it when reading > the corresponding code. Excellent suggestion. I've just submitted a patch to do this. Thanks! Mark

Re: thread safe functions

2011-02-10 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey Ken, I got tired of seeing your mail marked as starred in my inbox, so I decided to take a look at it ;-) You were writing about threadsafe access to global variables. On Sun 29 Aug 2010 03:33, Ken Raeburn writes: > looking at deprecation.c, I'd suggest not printing stuff while the > lock

ideas for the web site

2011-02-10 Thread Julian Graham
Hey all, As part of preparing for the upcoming release, I thought it would be a good idea to review the contents of the Guile web site at gnu.org. Here are some initial thoughts I had, in no particular order: The "What is Guile?" page should be what http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ gives you, n