Re: Interesting project proposal for generics in Racket

2014-03-08 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-03-05 19:12 GMT+01:00 Jan Wedekind : >> Besides, I think that Scheme + OOP has its own flaws. In most OOP >> languages, you have this notation object.property or object->method(), >> which also allows for chain calls, i.e. object->getChild()->method(), >> or -- if you have nested objects -- to

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Mateusz Kowalczyk writes: > On 08/03/14 00:32, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Mateusz Kowalczyk writes: >>> I doubt that going from a single inherently unsafe but bloody fast >>> language to slightly less unsafe but much slower language is an >>> advantage here… >> >> "Slightly less unsafe"? Seriousl

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
The beauty of scheme is that it is quite possible to design statically typed meta language. And if we let the guile hacker doggies chew on the guile stake a little bit more, you would also see a speedup of the generated code that will essentially mean that just a tiny bit of C-code needs to be writ

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 08/03/14 16:37, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote: > Mateusz Kowalczyk writes: > >> On 08/03/14 00:32, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Mateusz Kowalczyk writes: I doubt that going from a single inherently unsafe but bloody fast language to slightly less unsafe but much slower language is

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 08/03/14 16:47, Stefan Israelsson Tampe wrote: > The beauty of scheme is that it is quite possible to design statically > typed meta language. Please spare me this approach. It certainly is possible but is a lot of effort and you get a gimped version of existing languages but without any real

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Mike Gran
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:57 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: >I'm asking how the perfect setup is going to be achieved. Simply writing >the library in Guile does not make it secure (or maintainable for that >matter). My sole question to the opening post is ‘how will the library >be assured to

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 09/03/14 00:40, Mike Gran wrote: > On Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:57 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk > wrote: > > >> I'm asking how the perfect setup is going to be achieved. Simply writing >> the library in Guile does not make it secure (or maintainable for that >> matter). My sole question to the openi