On 1/11/20 8:01 am, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi,
Brendan Tildesley skribis:
In the guix codebase, on many occasions there appear things like this:
(match-lambda
(($ agetty tty term baud-rate auto-login
login-program login-pause? eight-bits? no-reset? remote?
flow-control?
Hi,
Brendan Tildesley skribis:
> In the guix codebase, on many occasions there appear things like this:
>
> (match-lambda
> (($ agetty tty term baud-rate auto-login
> login-program login-pause? eight-bits? no-reset? remote?
> flow-control?
> host no-issue? init-string no-cle
Hi Brendan,
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:59:59 +1100
Brendan Tildesley wrote:
> No I didn't want to specify the fields at all, just have all of them
> automatically defined.
I think that that is a bad idea for maintenance reasons.
This totally would hide variables from the enclosing context without
On 30.10.2020 11:28, Brendan Tildesley wrote:
In the guix codebase, on many occasions there appear things like this:
(match-lambda
(($ agetty tty term baud-rate auto-login
login-program login-pause? eight-bits? no-reset? remote? flow-control?
host no-issue? init-string no-cl
Hi Brendan,
On +2020-10-30 21:28:38 +1100, Brendan Tildesley wrote:
> From the little bit of SICP that I've done, I recall watching the lectures
> where
> they put a mage hat on and talk about the power of names. One could perhaps
> say
> the most powerful tool in a programming language is the abi
On 30/10/20 8:49 pm, Leo Prikler wrote:
Well, the "functional" way of accessing them all in one go would be to
(map (cute <> foo) (list package-name package-version package-...))
But I assume you want syntax like
(let-field record field exp*)
(let-fields record (field1 field2...) exp*)
No I d
Well, the "functional" way of accessing them all in one go would be to
(map (cute <> foo) (list package-name package-version package-...))
But I assume you want syntax like
(let-field record field exp*)
(let-fields record (field1 field2...) exp*)
analogous to (srfi srfi-9 gnu) set-field and se
From the little bit of SICP that I've done, I recall watching the
lectures where
they put a mage hat on and talk about the power of names. One could
perhaps say
the most powerful tool in a programming language is the ability to give
something a name and then refer to those names.
In guix/guile,
