Re: GNU Guile 1.9.6 released (alpha)

2009-12-16 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/12/16 Ludovic Courtès : > Hi Linas, > > Linas Vepstas writes: > >> I have a new feature request -- it would be useful, in a variety of >> situations, >> to be able to provide an opaque (void *) pointer when calling make_gsubr, >> and then getting that pointer back again whenever the primitiv

Re: GNU Guile 1.9.6 released (alpha)

2009-12-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Linas, Linas Vepstas writes: > I have a new feature request -- it would be useful, in a variety of > situations, > to be able to provide an opaque (void *) pointer when calling make_gsubr, > and then getting that pointer back again whenever the primitive is called. One solution is to use ap

Re: GNU Guile 1.9.6 released (alpha)

2009-12-16 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/12/16 Thien-Thi Nguyen : > () Linas Vepstas > () Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:19:21 -0600 > >   I have a new feature request -- it would be useful, in a >   variety of situations, to be able to provide an opaque (void *) >   pointer when calling make_gsubr, and then getting that pointer >   back again

Re: GNU Guile 1.9.6 released (alpha)

2009-12-16 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Linas Vepstas () Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:19:21 -0600 I have a new feature request -- it would be useful, in a variety of situations, to be able to provide an opaque (void *) pointer when calling make_gsubr, and then getting that pointer back again whenever the primitive is called. Pre

Re: GNU Guile 1.9.6 released (alpha)

2009-12-15 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/12/15 Ludovic Courtès : > Changes since the 1.9.5 pre-release: >  *** Simplify representation of primitive procedures > >  It used to be that there were something like 12 different typecodes >  allocated to primitive procedures, each with its own calling convention. >  Now there is only one,

GNU Guile 1.9.6 released (alpha)

2009-12-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.9.6. This is the next pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 release series. It provides many new noteworthy features, most notably the addition of a compiler and virtual machine. We encourage you to test them and provide feedback to `gu