Re: FOSDEM 2016

2015-09-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Pjotr over on guix-devel has proposed we organise a Guile developer track at the next FOSDEM (January 2016). There seems to be a pretty good reception on the guix mailing lists, and we're still looking for ideas for talks, etc. If you'd be interested in giving a talk, check out https:

Re: [RFC] Block all async signals used by gdb when initializing Guile

2015-09-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:05:59 -0700 > From: Doug Evans > Cc: Mark Kettenis , > "gdb-patc...@sourceware.org" , guile-devel > > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 23:04:02 +0200 (CEST) > >> From: Mark Kettenis > >> CC: e...@gnu.org, gd

Re: [RFC] Block all async signals used by gdb when initializing Guile

2015-09-01 Thread Doug Evans
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> The goal here is to block these signals from being sent to the threads >> that Guile (or more specifically libgc) creates. > > Why only libgc? Don't we want to block these signals in any Guile > code invoked later by GDB? Any threads create

Re: [RFC] Block all async signals used by gdb when initializing Guile

2015-09-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 08:22:44 -0700 > From: Doug Evans > Cc: Mark Kettenis , > "gdb-patc...@sourceware.org" , guile-devel > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> The goal here is to block these signals from being sent to the threads > >> that Guile (or more sp

Re: Add SRFI-123 support.

2015-09-01 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Oops, it looks like the test suite doesn't pass anymore after I fixed the problem where I was mutating a literal bytevector. It should have been the other way around! :-) So a #u8() and #vu8() aren't the same thing after all. (u8vector? #vu8(0)) => #f (u8vector? (make-bytevector 1))

Re: Making apostrophe, backtick, etc. hygienic?

2015-09-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes: > How about making 'foo turn into something like (__quote__ foo), and > similar for `foo, #'foo, etc.? This is part of the standard behavior of 'read', e.g. section 4.3.5 of the R6RS, and has been for over 50 years. Lots of existin