A plea for local-eval in 2.0.4

2012-01-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
I'd like to make one last plea to include my simple `local-eval' implementation in 2.0.4. My hope is that if we can ship it soon enough, versions of Guile without `local-eval' will be rare enough to enable Lilypond to eliminate their ugly hacks and simply declare that Guile 2.0.0-2.0.3 are unsuppo

Re: The empty string and other empty strings

2012-01-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > What do other people think? As you said, R5RS makes it clear that there can be several (in the sense of eq?) empty strings, so I think what you did is the right thing. Thanks! Ludo’.

Re: guile 2012

2012-01-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Andy Wingo skribis: > I think 2012 will be a good year for Guile. We'll be solidifying the > 2.0 series, even as we start producing the first pre-release or two of > 2.2. I would really love to get a register VM and a first stab at > native compilation out this year. We'll see. Sounds

Re: A plea for local-eval in 2.0.4

2012-01-12 Thread Bruce Korb
On 01/12/12 13:43, Mark H Weaver wrote: I worked very hard to produce a simple and maintainable implementation of `local-eval' in time for 2.0.4, so that we might rectify this unfortunate Lilypond unhappiness. It would be a shame if that work were wasted. Just for the record, I'm okay with tak