On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 7:32 PM HiPhish wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
>
> How popular is r6rs anyway? From what I gathered it was pretty badly
> received
> and r7rs small was intentionally designed to be less ambitious, while the
> upcoming r7rs will be larger than even Common Lisp.
>
That's basi
John Cowan wrote:
> By convention, Scheme procedures whose only side effect is on a port
> don't use the ! in their names: we write `read`, `write`, `display`, not
> `read!`, `write!`, `display!`.
>
> I would suggest calling them pack-and-write and read-and-unpack;
> you can leave out the "and-" i
Roel Janssen writes:
> Amirouche Boubekki writes:
>
>> On 2018-09-18 21:42, Roel Janssen wrote:
>>> Dear Guilers,
>>>
>>> I'd like to implement a web server using the (web server) module, but
>>> allow for “streaming” results. The way I imagine this would look like,
>>> is something like this
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 8:33 AM HiPhish wrote:
Since using MessagePack with
> ports is a frequent task there is also a `pack!` procedure which takes in
> a
> port to pack to as well.
>
By convention, Scheme procedures whose only side effect is on a port
don't use the ! in their names: we write `
Thompson, David wrote:
> So does this allow for sending over arbitrarily nested s-expressions
> (i.e. anything supported by Guile's 'read' and 'write' procedures)?
> For example:
>
> (pack '((foo . 1) (bar . (2 3 4)) (baz . "hello")))
Not quite, you are limited to the types MessagePack defines
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 8:34 AM HiPhish wrote:
>
> ## What is MessagePack ##
>
> MessagePack is a specification for how to turn data into byte and vice-versa.
> Think of it like JSON, except instead of human readability it stresses speed
> and size efficiency. The format is binary and well suited
Hello Schemers,
I am pleased to announce to the public a project I have been working on for a
while: an implementation of the MessagePack[1] data serialization format for
GNU Guile.
https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/guile-msgpack
## What is MessagePack ##
MessagePack is a specification for how to t
Amirouche Boubekki writes:
> On 2018-09-18 21:42, Roel Janssen wrote:
>> Dear Guilers,
>>
>> I'd like to implement a web server using the (web server) module, but
>> allow for “streaming” results. The way I imagine this would look like,
>> is something like this:
>>
>> (define (request-handler
