Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread JonWilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh right. My apologies for not answering the question you asked... Ishan Arora wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. I tried system. It calls the code synchronously, and > returns a number for success or failure of the command. Is there a way such

phase separation -- was Re: set-pair!

2008-09-11 Thread JonWilson
Hi Clinton, Clinton Ebadi wrote: > runtime modification of > lexical environments is incompatible with a properly phase-separated > compiler). I hear a lot of mention of phase separation, usually as something desirable. However, I've never seen a thorough explanation of why phase separation is p

Re: Me no understand scoping

2008-09-11 Thread JonWilson
Hi Andy, Andy Wingo wrote: > Do you see now why local-eval can't possibly work in the presence of > efficient compilation? Scheme does not give you the particular kind of > dynamism that you want. There is no hash table lurking inside a closure. Why not compile most closures away, but leave thos

Re: What new libraries or functionality does Guile need?

2008-07-21 Thread JonWilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems that snd has a significant amount of functionality that might be generally useful. Would it be possible for the snd team to spend some time factoring out these things? I know that snd-c and the GL bindings have been mentioned here, but I sus