Re: The Web, Continuations, and All That

2012-02-06 Thread Tobias Gerdin
2012/1/31 Andy Wingo : > Hi Tobias, > > On Mon 30 Jan 2012 20:17, Tobias Gerdin writes: > >> 2012/1/23 Andy Wingo : >>> Did you ever run into problems with non-resumable continuations? >> >> At times I was scratching my head and wondering what was going o

Fwd: The Web, Continuations, and All That

2012-02-06 Thread Tobias Gerdin
2012/1/31 Ian Price : > [...] > > A whole bunch of ideas were discussed on IRC a while back[1], and > serialisation was one of the issues I was most concerned about. As it > stands, when the program stops you lose all your existing continuations, > which may be undesirable. > > Another important is

Re: The Web, Continuations, and All That

2012-01-30 Thread Tobias Gerdin
2012/1/23 Andy Wingo : > On Sun 22 Jan 2012 21:46, Ian Price writes: >> It's always nice to see someone playing with continuations. > > Yes, that was beautiful.  I'm happy you were able to get something > going, Tobias.  Did you ever run into problems with non-resumable > continuations? At times

Re: The Web, Continuations, and All That

2012-01-30 Thread Tobias Gerdin
2012/1/25 Ian Price : >>> It would be if someone(nudge nudge) were to take the effort to make one >>> of these experiments practical, since a guile web framework seems to be >>> a common request. >> >> While i like the idea i should note that it does not scale. What if you >> have 5 application se

The Web, Continuations, and All That

2012-01-22 Thread Tobias Gerdin
Hello, To get better acquainted with continuations I have been playing with them in the context of web programming a bit. Much has been written on the topic (in particular I find the Racket tutorials very instructive), and here I would just like to share the small experiments I did using delimite

Aborting debugger prompt

2011-10-13 Thread Tobias Gerdin
Hello, When an error occurs and you are running under the REPL you are dropped into the debugger ("Entering a new prompt. .."). This is useful. But I am wondering if it is not possible to abort this prompt with a user-defined value? That is, to get hold of the continuation and applying it to some

Procedure breakpoints

2011-10-12 Thread Tobias Gerdin
Hello, Is there any way to attach traps to another executing thread from the REPL? A use case would be to be able to trap procedures running in the main thread when I connect to a Guile started with the --listen option. -Tobias

Re: project: translate guile-tutorial.texi to use guile-cairo

2011-09-20 Thread Tobias Gerdin
2011/9/20 Tobias Gerdin : > Lastly, just thought I'd mention an issue that I ran into when > building Guile-Cairo (commit 1918626 from Git, looks like it > corresponds to 1.9.91). When I run autogen/configure it complains that > I need to supply a prefix argument because &q

Re: project: translate guile-tutorial.texi to use guile-cairo

2011-09-20 Thread Tobias Gerdin
On 28 Apr 2011, at 11:41, Andy Wingo wrote: > Guile has a tutorial written by Daniel Kraft, which uses Scheme to > extend a C drawing process. It uses Gnuplot for the drawing, which is > not GNU, and AFAIK not even free software. It would be better to use > some other drawing library; for exampl