2014 potluck dish: compost, a leaf function compiler

2014-03-05 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi! Sorry for the late mail; I have been derelict with mail for the last few months. Terrible. But I did make a potluck dish! Wanted to mention it if you haven't seen it. http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/02/18/compost-a-leaf-function-compiler-for-guile Enjoy :) Andy -- http://wingolog.o

Interesting project proposal for generics in Racket

2014-03-05 Thread Jan Wedekind
Besides, I think that Scheme + OOP has its own flaws. In most OOP languages, you have this notation object.property or object->method(), which also allows for chain calls, i.e. object->getChild()->method(), or -- if you have nested objects -- to use object.property.propertys_property. Somewhat r

Re: Article about GNU Guile and GOOPS

2014-03-05 Thread Jan Wedekind
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Jan Wedekind wrote: Hi, I have written a small blog post about object-oriented programming with GNU Guile and GOOPS [1]. Having used the Ruby programming language for some time, I am quite spoiled when it comes to

Re: Article about GNU Guile and GOOPS

2014-03-05 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Jan Wedekind wrote: > Hi, > I have written a small blog post about object-oriented programming with > GNU Guile and GOOPS [1]. Having used the Ruby programming language for some > time, I am quite spoiled when it comes to objects ;) > It took me a while to figur

Re: Article about GNU Guile and GOOPS

2014-03-05 Thread Nala Ginrut
> I think it's a nice little introduction to GOOPS. > > I want to discuss this particular point from the post, because it is > shared by many other people: "... one thing I don't like about Scheme > is that there are different function names for each type of arguments. > E.g. adding numbers is don