Re: How to pass something on to xargs rm?

2016-12-27 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:33:21AM +, ng0 wrote: Hi, I have some scripts and small applications I'm slowly moving over to guile. One of them features this[0] line at the end which passes results on to xargs rm. I picked a start with just (system*) everything I

Re: There is BSD in libguile

2015-07-02 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 07:48:42PM +0200, Michael Tiedtke wrote: Found BSD in the sources. Thanks BSD: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software develop

Re: Imagemagick and Guile

2015-01-11 Thread John Darrington
I have done similar things using Gimp. Gimp, as you may know, has a Scheme interface which is very similar to Guile, (in fact I believe Guile was forked from the Gimp interpretor). For example to generate png files from a svg input see http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/tree/build-aux/s

Re: How to add Guile support to a package

2015-01-05 Thread John Darrington
You might want to have a look at how this was done for Gnubik. Some years ago we added a Guile interface to that. Maybe you can get some inspiration there. J' On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 02:47:03PM +0100, Antonio Ceballos wrote: Hi Guile folks, I am thinking about adding guile sup

Re: docstrings in the reference manual

2014-12-16 Thread John Darrington
Why murder the English language more than necessary? "Docstrings" is a cliche which has come from other projects. Peope for whom English is not their first language can be confused by such aliterations. They won't find the word in any dictionary. Write the term "documentation string" out in f

Re: Filename encoding

2014-01-16 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:03:05PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Eli Zaretskii skribis: >> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Court??s) >> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:29:06 +0100 >> >> Does anyone know of systems where the file name encoding is commonly >> different fr

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-04 Thread John Darrington
It sounds like an interesting project. The subject line of your post says it is a "GNU Package", but I don't see slayer in the official list. Perhaps you mean it is one that you want to submit to GNU in the hope that they will adopt it as a package? Or did you mean something else? Obviously how

Self Optimising Statistical Calculator

2013-02-16 Thread John Darrington
I'm happy to announce version 0.0 of a hitherto unpublished Guile project. This projectlet comprises approximately 300 lines of Scheme and some guile interfaces to functions from the libraries of GNU PSPP (a statistical analysis program). However the purpose is not to provide Guile bindings to P

Re: Can somebody help to explain why result from atan does not equal a real?

2013-01-31 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:32:53AM -0500, Noah Lavine wrote: What you have here is a precision problem. scheme@(guile-user)> (= 3.14159265358979 (atan 0 -1)) $8 = #f scheme@(guile-user)> (= $7 (atan 0 -1)) $9 = #t It might be possible to have Guile print mo

Re: Guile 2 birthday potluck

2013-01-08 Thread John Darrington
What is the procedure for serving our gastronomic gourmet of guile? Who or what will perform the degustation? J' On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:33:22AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: February 16 will mark 2 years of Guile 2, and following Ludovic's example I thought it might be a nice idea

Re: GNU Guile community in google+

2012-12-18 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 09:39:31AM +0100, zx spectrumgomas wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Ludovic Court?s wrote: > Hi, > > As others wrote, please don?t advertise this service here. This one and > similar services are a threat to privacy and freedom of speech, a

Re: GNU Guile community in google+

2012-12-17 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 03:02:44PM +0800, Nala Ginrut wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 01:36 -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > zx spectrumgomas writes: > > I've created GNU Guile in google+ . Join to the community! > > https://plus.google.com/communities/109342732294319716184?hl=es

Re: Neat hacks for a birthday

2012-02-09 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:54:23PM +0100, Ludovic Court?s wrote: Hello Guilers! Next week, on February 16th, is the first anniversary of Guile 2.0! Like all great events, it ought to be celebrated. So, here???s a suggestion: let???s write neat hacks that integr