Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
"Andrew C. Suttles" writes: > I know this is going to sound troll-ish, but I really don't mean for it to be. > I have been an Emacs user for quite some time and I've learned to hack my way > around ELSIP some. I'd like to make a structured attempt to learn LISP(ish) > programming and read SICP (

Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-17 Thread Greg Troxel
I have written standalone programs in guile, and I think it does ok at that. goops is very cool, and like CLOS, but more scheme-ish (meaning there is one namespace rather than a separate variable/function/class namespace). pgpZLteBgIttq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-17 Thread Andrew C. Suttles
I know this is going to sound troll-ish, but I really don't mean for it to be. I have been an Emacs user for quite some time and I've learned to hack my way around ELSIP some. I'd like to make a structured attempt to learn LISP(ish) programming and read SICP (etc) and so I searched the net and ins

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread parawaiter
On Dec 17, 2009, at 20:05 , Keith Wright wrote: > Currently, the variables that Scheme programmers know as > |<| and |>|, are called in C _less and _gr. This probably also applies to things like string string_lt() (string_lt_p ?) > Propose to rename the C variables so that |<| and |>| > are call

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Keith Wright
> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > >> > >> Yi DAI writes: > >> > >>> I'd like to suggest the following name convention > >>> which complies to names commonly found in > >>> assembly languages. > >>> > >>> > >>>    - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Linas Vepstas writes: > 2009/12/17 Ludovic Courtès : >> Hi, >> >> Yi DAI writes: >> >>> I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names >>> commonly found in assembly languages. >>> >>> >>>    - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*. >>>    - Replace > (greater than) wi

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/12/17 Ludovic Courtès : > Hi, > > Yi DAI writes: > >> I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names >> commonly found in assembly languages. >> >> >>    - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*. >>    - Replace > (greater than) with *_gt*. > > Changing conventions would

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Yi DAI writes: > I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names > commonly found in assembly languages. > > >- Replace < (less than) with *_lt*. >- Replace > (greater than) with *_gt*. Changing conventions would mean changing the API or maintaining functio