Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread David Kastrup
Nala Ginrut writes: > I think we have to elaborate the question clearer. > > 1. How to make guile-scheme more successful? > I think this is similar to ask "how to make scheme more successful". > This is the big question to the whole scheme community. > > 2. How to make guile platform more success

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread Nala Ginrut
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:18 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Frankly, I doubt that migration of large Python-based applications is > going to be a thing when nobody can even be bothered with immersing > himself in the problems with migrating LilyPond from Guile-1.8 to > Guile-2. No, I don't think so. I

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread David Kastrup
Nala Ginrut writes: > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:18 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Frankly, I doubt that migration of large Python-based applications is >> going to be a thing when nobody can even be bothered with immersing >> himself in the problems with migrating LilyPond from Guile-1.8 to >> Gui

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread Nala Ginrut
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:19 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > The .go organization and call gate costs (for example constant string > conversions) and memory organization and foreign string hardiness issues > bogging down LilyPond will affect interfacing to every external library > with a high call rate

Re: Using '-1' in a method named '*'

2017-03-03 Thread Sandic, Aleksandar
Thank you, everyone. It is working now, I built from HEAD and negating a vector works as expected. This will bridge me over until 2.2 is released.

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread Matt Wette
> On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:28 PM, Nala Ginrut wrote: > 2. How to make guile platform more successful? > I this case, let me ask a question, if we have guile-python3 > (compatible with most of Python3 features), and provide more > convenient FFI helper function to help bind more libraries in short >

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread Amirouche
Le 03/03/2017 à 18:21, Matt Wette a écrit : On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:28 PM, Nala Ginrut wrote: 2. How to make guile platform more successful? I this case, let me ask a question, if we have guile-python3 (compatible with most of Python3 features), and provide more convenient FFI helper function to

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread Amirouche
Le 03/03/2017 à 18:21, Matt Wette a écrit : On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:28 PM, Nala Ginrut wrote: 2. How to make guile platform more successful? I this case, let me ask a question, if we have guile-python3 (compatible with most of Python3 features), and provide more convenient FFI helper function to

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread Matt Wette
> On Mar 3, 2017, at 11:16 AM, Amirouche wrote: >> Now that the C preprocessor in NYACC/C99 is more robust I could start >> looking at generating some sort of “FFI helper” functionality. I have been >> thinking about this problem on and off for a while. Completely automating >> things might

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-03 Thread Matt Wette
> On Mar 3, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Mike Gran wrote: > >> On Friday, March 3, 2017 11:18 AM, Amirouche wrote: > >>> Now that the C preprocessor in NYACC/C99 is more robust I could start >>> looking at generating some sort of “FFI helper” functionality. I have >>> been thinking about this proble