Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add non-destructive version of alist-update!

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:14:45PM +0200, Christian Kellermann wrote: Thanks! We just had a little chat on IRC about this. For the records let me summarise: - the patch does basically what alist-copy does in srfi-1 Yep - why not move all the alist stuff *into* srfi-1 even our extensions to

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add non-destructive version of alist-update!

2011-09-07 Thread John Cowan
Peter Bex scripsit: This grumpy robot thinks that would be really confusing; let's keep the SRFI modules clean versions of the SRFI. +1. SRFI 1 is as near to being a standard as the Scheme world knows outside the RnRSs themselves. Indeed, the R7RS small language has changed a few procedures

Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:18:44PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote: All other Schemes I tested with (Guile, Gauche, Scheme48, Racket and Gambit) return +inf.0 for (/ 1.0 0.0) and -inf.0 for (/ -1.0 0.0). They return +nan.0 for (/ 0.0 0.0). Extra data points would be welcome. I'd like to open a CR

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-meisters] Let's have a roadmap, just like the grown-ups

2011-09-07 Thread Christian Kellermann
* felix winkelmann fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org [110907 11:22]: This touches on the subject of a general development roadmap or strategy, which is probably a good thing to have, as long as we don't become too dogmatic about it. Yes a plan is a good thing. Having inspiration behind

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-meisters] Let's have a roadmap, just like the grown-ups

2011-09-07 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/2011 09:25 PM, Christian Kellermann wrote: * felix winkelmann fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org [110907 11:22]: This touches on the subject of a general development roadmap or strategy, which is probably a good thing to have, as

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-meisters] Let's have a roadmap, just like the grown-ups

2011-09-07 Thread Imran Rafique
On 7 September 2011 22:04, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote: Also, I've noticed (or think I have noticed) that users get lost in the number of available eggs. Tagging, ranking or some other sort of meta-view of the egg library might be something to think about. Yes I have