Re: Running script from directory with UTF-8 characters

2015-12-24 Thread Barry Schwartz
Marko Rauhamaa skribis: > I'm a bit sorry that Guile repeated Python 3's mistake and brought > (Unicode) strings to the center. Strings are a highly special-purpose > data structure; I really never had a real need for them in my decades of > programming. Also, I suspect strings are much too simpli

Re: Any New Guile Release Planned ?

2015-10-28 Thread Barry Schwartz
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > Rafik NACCACHE skribis: > > > Is there any new release planned soon? > > We’ve been meaning to release 2.0.12, which is mostly bug fixes. > However, we’re still debating on a new API that is introduced here. > > Hopefully it’ll be ready soonish! > > Besides, Andy Wi

Re: iconv or something like that

2014-10-26 Thread Barry Schwartz
Thien-Thi Nguyen skribis: > Thanks. I think the more the Free Software world honestly > shares its mistakes, silly or what have you, the lighter > (and, curiously, stronger) the atmosphere becomes. That’s why I generally dislike it when people remove commits/branches in version control software

Re: system

2014-10-20 Thread Barry Schwartz
Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer skribis: > Tim Even writes: > > > I've been using Chez/Petite Scheme's system command as a sort of > > Scheme interface to Netpbm and other executables. Any information -- > > more than what is in the documentation -- on a Guile equivalent? > > Guile has a `system'

Re: Weird module behaviour

2014-09-25 Thread Barry Schwartz
Panicz Maciej Godek skribis: > I'm trying to use Aleix Conchillo's guile-redis module for my project, > and it revealed a surprising use-case. > Namely, guile-redis consists of several modules that are put together > in one meta-module, which looks more or less like this: > > (define-module (redi