srfi-88 keyword / symbol ambiguity

2008-07-20 Thread Julian Graham
Hi, It looks like the changes to the reader to support SRFI-88-style keywords lead to some ambiguities when it comes to whether a token is a symbol or a keyword. Specifically, it's no longer possible to create a symbol via quoting if that symbol ends in a colon: guile> (use-modules (srfi srfi-88

Re: What new libraries or functionality does Guile need?

2008-07-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Mike Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi- If you could ask someone to write a library or package a set of > functionality for Guile that it doesn't currently have, what would it > be? Unicode support in core Guile, FUSE bindings & GNU Hurd file system library bindings (a unified interfa

Re: Getting a type of a variable

2008-07-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, "Maciek Godek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The solution of my dreams is that it would turn out > that there's a function defined in the scm api: > scm_t_bits scm_get_type(SCM *var) > that returns a type tag and that there's a way to decipher > the contents of this return value, and that

Re: What new libraries or functionality does Guile need?

2008-07-20 Thread Mike Gran
--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great! So Gano itself is nearing completion? If so, > that's good news. > I'm sure some of your free time could be used > maintaining it then. ;-) Ha ha. My real-world has moved away from ncurses and the console. So, there

Re: What new libraries or functionality does Guile need?

2008-07-20 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Mike Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> () Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:13:04 -0700 (PDT) If you could ask someone to write a library or package a set of functionality for Guile that it doesn't currently have, what would it be? I would ask for an API-upgrade program. This program would scan C source to