Re: Guile with win32 cross compiling

2011-04-24 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Volker, On Sat 23 Apr 2011 18:10, Volker Grabsch writes: > Andy Wingo schrieb: >> Hmmm. Well. We have other code generators in Guile's build system; >> notably the configure script (via config.h and other output files). >> What do folks think about the attached patch? > > Please drop me a n

Re: binary-port?

2011-04-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Marco, Marco Maggi writes: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > However, I’m wondering whether we should not just squarely do away with the binary/textual distinction > > How would you handle port position? Currently port position is in bytes for all kinds of ports (info "(guile) Rand

Re: Patch: New section "Invoking Guile" for chapter "Programming in Scheme"

2011-04-24 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sat 23 Apr 2011 21:46, Mark Harig writes: > Here is a set of patches to add the new section "Invoking Guile" to > the chapter "Programming in Scheme." They look good in general, though I have some comments. I would like Neil to look over them as well, or at least say he's OK with them. Firs

Re: Patch: New section "Invoking Guile" for chapter "Programming in Scheme"

2011-04-24 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Mark, Thanks for the revisions. On Sun 24 Apr 2011 22:36, Mark Harig writes: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:33:44PM +0200, Andy Wingo wrote: >> your patches should be "atomic" > > "3. No patch introduces a regression: after applying any > initial part of the series, the resulting project still

Re: Patch: New section "Invoking Guile" for chapter "Programming in Scheme"

2011-04-24 Thread Mark Harig
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:00:16PM +0200, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for the revisions. > > On Sun 24 Apr 2011 22:36, Mark Harig writes: > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:33:44PM +0200, Andy Wingo wrote: > >> your patches should be "atomic" > > > > "3. No patch introduces a regre

Re: Patch: New section "Invoking Guile" for chapter "Programming in Scheme"

2011-04-24 Thread David Pirotte
Le Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:00:16 +0200, Andy Wingo a écrit : > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for the revisions. > .. Hello Mark, Andy, While you are at the manual, may I point to some suggestion I made about the structure and contents of the indexes which still is, IMHO, valid today. [wanted to actually re

Re: Indexing Scheme and C identifiers separately

2011-04-24 Thread Mark Harig
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 07:09:07PM -0300, David Pirotte wrote: > While you are at the manual, may I point to some > suggestion I made about the structure and contents of the > indexes which still is, IMHO, valid today. [wanted to > actually really point the email in guile-devel archive but > but

Re: Indexing Scheme and C identifiers separately

2011-04-24 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, > I do not know how you are reading the Guile Reference > Manual, but the printed version is about 809 pages long. At > present, the indices run from page 755 to 809, so the > revision that is suggested, above, would not be small. > > What would be of some help to get this project started

Re: New feature proposal: Support C-code inline?

2011-04-24 Thread nalaginrut
> Well, is the code a piece of string ? Does that mean we'll have code > generation on-the-fly facilities? ^_^ > yes. you don't need to convert var's type, this module does it automatic for you. > By the way, do you like the idea of some kind of inline C-code > "segments" embed in scm files? (J