Re: Discussion for %display-auto-compilation-messages (and --no-auto-compilation-messages option)

2014-03-26 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 26 Mar 2014 04:19, Mark H Weaver writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > > It occurs to me that one possibility would be to allow some of these > parameters to effectively mirror the value of some other parameter. > One way to implement this would be to make the corresponding fluid be a > thun

Re: Guile's I/O procedures should *not* do thread synchronization

2014-03-26 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 26 Mar 2014 06:10, Mark H Weaver writes: > Andy Wingo writes: n> >> On Tue 25 Mar 2014 12:14, "Diogo F. S. Ramos" writes: >> >>> It's not obvious that ports are not thread-safe and trying to have >>> multiple threads writing to one returns errors that are not >>> recognizable as been cau

Re: Guile's I/O procedures should *not* do thread synchronization

2014-03-26 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andy Wingo writes: > On Wed 26 Mar 2014 06:10, Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: > n> >>> On Tue 25 Mar 2014 12:14, "Diogo F. S. Ramos" writes: >>> It's not obvious that ports are not thread-safe and trying to have multiple threads writing to one returns errors that are n

Placement of libguile-2.0.so.22.7.2-gdb.scm

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
I'm working on the 2.0.11 packages, and with relatively current Debian, I see this when installing the new packages: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.18-4) ... /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/libguile-2.0.so.22.7.2-gdb.scm is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. Whi

Re: Guile's I/O procedures should *not* do thread synchronization

2014-03-26 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Wed 26 Mar 2014 16:32, Mark H Weaver writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> It seems to work for glibc streams. Why do you think that thread >> synchronization is inappropriate for Guile if it works for glibc? > > In the Scheme world, things are very different. The Scheme standards > provid

Re: efficient implementation of string-replace-substring / string-replace-all

2014-03-26 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 24. März 2014, 01:19:12 schrieb Mark H Weaver: > Andy Wingo writes: > > > On Fri 13 Sep 2013 21:41, Mark H Weaver writes: > > > > Inspired to code-golf a bit, here's one that's even faster :) > > > > (define (string-replace-substring s substring replacement) > > "Replace every insta

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add reference to the lack of "non-greedy" variants

2014-03-26 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
"Diogo F. S. Ramos" writes: > While describing special characters, remind the reader that > "non-greedy" variants are not supported. They might not be familiar > with POSIX extended regular expression and expect it to work. Going by that logic, might they not expect a lot more? (Say, if all th

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add reference to the lack of "non-greedy" variants

2014-03-26 Thread Diogo F. S. Ramos
> "Diogo F. S. Ramos" writes: > >> While describing special characters, remind the reader that >> "non-greedy" variants are not supported. They might not be familiar >> with POSIX extended regular expression and expect it to work. > > Going by that logic, might they not expect a lot more? (Say,