Re: Problems building GNU Greg testing framework

2011-01-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! ro...@lavabit.com writes: > I'm trying to build GNU Greg 1.4 in order to build Guile DBI but when I > run ./configure something goes wrong. > > $ ./configure --prefix $HOME/opt/ > loading cache ./config.cache > checking host system type... Invalid configuration > `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': m

Re: when to use strings, when to use symbols

2011-01-09 Thread Hans Aberg
On 9 Jan 2011, at 03:25, Andy Wingo wrote: Let's say you have an association list. It could be (("foo" . "bar")) or ((foo . "bar")) or ((foo bar)), or even (("foo" . bar)). If you're parsing this data from over the network, in textual form, which do you use? The answer is this: * Use symb

Re: when to use strings, when to use symbols

2011-01-09 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Andy Wingo () Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:25:32 -0800 * Use symbols when you want to match against a symbol literal in your source code. * Use strings otherwise. Symbols are preferable whenever ‘eq?’ is important (for whatever reason, depending on program design). Many times that in