The words you’re actually looking for are “statically typed” and “dynamically typed.”Scheme is “dynamically typed.” Some people use the words “strongly typed” to refer to the phenomena that variables must be explicitly converted to another type to be used in a different context. Eg, a string cannot
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Andy!
>
> This all looks pretty exciting! Being able to get rid of all repeated
> ‘local-{ref,set}’ instructions sounds compelling. And it does seem to
> bring us one step closer to native code.
>
> Presumably the tricky part will be t
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Ian Price wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Though guile is really a multi-language vm, it does not provide a simple
> way to run scripts for languages other scheme from the command line. I
> think we should add a --language switch that takes a mandatory argument,
> and use that
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Nala Ginrut wrote:
> Well, I think it's something like Actors but little different.
> And I think it would be nice if there's a document for it.
It's a foundational part of actors, more than actors themselves.
Actors need some sort of "mailbox" to communicate with
