Wanna hacking into Guile

2009-12-18 Thread Yi DAI
Hi, I've been using Guile for a while. And now I wanna learn things under the hook and wish someday I could contribute some code to the base also. I haven't finished reading the manual yet. I think it would be a good combination to read the manual and at the same time read some implementation cod

Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API

2009-12-18 Thread Yi DAI
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:44 AM, parawaiter wrote: > 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 ?) > Y

Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew C. Suttles
David Pirotte wrote (on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 at 11:52 -0200): > I have written 7 applications and 3 intranet web page 'generators' > industrially > used every day [some of them since many years]. Entirely written in scheme > [guile - > no C code], I intensively used ans still uses goops. They all c

Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew C. Suttles
Neil Jerram wrote (on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 at 00:42 +): [snip] > > Why not give Guile a quick try? I'm sure it should be able to interpret > SICP's code. > > Regards, > Neil Neil - Thanks for the encouragement. A helpful/informative post like this is just the nudge I needed to take t

Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-18 Thread David Pirotte
Le Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:57:03 -0500, "Andrew C. Suttles" a écrit : > 1) Is Guile used by anyone to create standalone apps, or is it primarily an > language to be imbedded into other language apps? Given that it cannot be > compiled to native code, I'd assume it's mainly used for light scripting