Re: Request for feedback on SRFI-126

2015-09-28 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Panicz Maciej Godek writes: > Even more broadly than the summaries I already gave, I could say: > I would like us to reach a state where one can think "I need to > write application X? Let's do it in Scheme since it's such a neat > language," and then proceed to install standard S

Re: Request for feedback on SRFI-126

2015-09-28 Thread A0
On 28/09/15 00:20, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote: > Delimited continuations are an academic curiosity, and sockets and > regexps are just a specific domain (I'm sure you could easily find > plenty of others; anyway, they are by no means fundamental) Sorry, but I have to comment on this. So did peop

Re: Request for feedback on SRFI-126

2015-09-28 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer"): > So we are back to square one: anyone who wants to use Scheme for > something real needs to pick a specific implementation, Which is true for other programming languages as well: C, C++, Python, .. For me, in practice, C/C++ is gcc, Pyth

Re: Request for feedback on SRFI-126

2015-09-28 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Marko Rauhamaa writes: > taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer"): > >> So we are back to square one: anyone who wants to use Scheme for >> something real needs to pick a specific implementation, > > Which is true for other programming languages as well: C, C++, Python, > .. > > F

Re: Request for feedback on SRFI-126

2015-09-28 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer writes: > I will probably work on a delimited continuations SRFI, heavily inspired > by Guile's call-with-prompt, since I find it *immensely* more easy to > grok than shift/reset and prompt/control because those mingle together > the "stack slice" and the "handler" cod

Re: Request for feedback on SRFI-126

2015-09-28 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer writes: > >> I will probably work on a delimited continuations SRFI, heavily inspired >> by Guile's call-with-prompt, since I find it *immensely* more easy to >> grok than shift/reset and prompt/control because those mingle together

Re: Request for feedback on SRFI-126

2015-09-28 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2015-09-28 10:13 GMT+02:00 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer < taylanbayi...@gmail.com>: > Panicz Maciej Godek writes: > > > > Maybe you should explain why there are so many implementations of > > Scheme in the first place? (That isn't the case for Python, Java or > > Perl) > > Because it's too easy t

[ANN] gzochi project development release 0.9

2015-09-28 Thread Julian Graham
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce the ninth development release of the gzochi game development framework. The project description, from Savannah: gzochi (/zoʊ-tʃiː/) is a framework for developing massively multiplayer online games. A server container provides services to deployed games, which