convert environment to module `name'

2017-03-04 Thread Matt Wette
I am working on “Compiling to the Virtual Machine”. Guile passes an `env’ object to the parser/compiler which is apparently the module object for the desired execution environment. To reference top-level variables in (external) tree-il I am using '(toplevel foo) but I guess I should b

Re: Guile 2.1.8 on 9 March / 2.2.0 on 16 March

2017-03-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Andy Wingo writes: > Finally for the release we should consider publicity -- what do we do? > Anything special? Volunteers are welcome here. The NEWS is quite > verbose, so condensing it into a set of 5-10 big-ticket items could be > useful; dunno. One important point would be to send advance

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-04 Thread Alejandro Sanchez
If I may add my two cents as a Scheme layman: the question is not so much about making Guile more popular, but about making Scheme itself more popular. One big reason for Python’s popularity is something I haven’t seen mentioned in this thread so far: if you know pseudocode you basically know Py

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
David Kastrup writes: > 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

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Alejandro Sanchez writes: > If I may add my two cents as a Scheme layman: the question is not so much > about making Guile more popular, but about making Scheme itself more popular. > > One big reason for Python’s popularity is something I haven’t seen > mentioned in this thread so far: if you

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-04 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-03-05 0:44 GMT+01:00 Arne Babenhauserheide : > > David Kastrup writes: > >> 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

Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

2017-03-04 Thread Erik Edrosa
On 03/04/2017 06:41 PM, Alejandro Sanchez wrote: > If I may add my two cents as a Scheme layman: the question is not so much > about making Guile more popular, but about making Scheme itself more popular. > > One big reason for Python’s popularity is something I haven’t seen mentioned > in this