Re: [Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?

2022-06-26 Thread David Rush
untoward happens to it. I have a surprisingly large collection of historical Scheme interpreters for pretty much these exact reasons... - d On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 at 19:19, Lynn Winebarger wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 2:09 PM Lynn Winebarger wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 1:37 PM David

[Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?

2022-06-26 Thread David Rush
So...I've been running Larceny 1.3 for quite a while now, and I use it regularly, if in admittedly casual circumstances (a lot of music theory calculation and occasional serious algorithmic prototyping). Today, I found some outright bugs in the SRFI-1 implementations of the lset-* algorithms and I

[Larceny-users] open-input-file "unable to open file" on 8GB file

2016-03-11 Thread David Rush
Hi y'all - I'm running larceny 0.98, for which I have written a number of logfile analysis programs, but I can't seem to get started on my latest (and largest) log file. drr@dubl-jessie-00:~/git/reorg/MarginMan/Bin/Log$ ls -l total 8320968 -rwxr-xr-x 1 drr drr 8266904911 Mar 10 17:31

[Larceny-users] Fwd: out of luck again?

2012-03-20 Thread David Rush
i meant to include larceny-users in my earlier reply (which went only to will, sorry) On 19 March 2012 14:57,  w...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: David Rush wrote: It appears the my hosting provider has upgraded my hardware to run an x86_64 architecture Linux Kernel 2.6.32.45. Now I have a version

[Larceny-users] out of luck again?

2012-03-19 Thread David Rush
It appears the my hosting provider has upgraded my hardware to run an x86_64 architecture Linux Kernel 2.6.32.45. Now I have a version of Larceny 0.96 fluoridation that I built back before the change, but it seems that the FFI is totally non-functional at this point (not a great surprise).

Re: [Larceny-users] Developing Windows GUI Programs

2011-05-25 Thread David Rush
On 4 April 2011 16:19, Steve Graham jsgraha...@yahoo.com wrote: I am interested in developing Windows GUI programs with typical elements such as drop down lists, radio buttons, text areas and text fields. Is that possible with Larceny? Are there any tips on how to proceed? Working with

Re: [Larceny-users] (newline port) in err5rs mode

2011-02-28 Thread David Rush
On 28 February 2011 01:11, w...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: The portable way to write text to a (standard-output-port) or (standard-error-port) is to use the transcoded-port procedure to obtain a textual output port, as in the following example: (define p (transcoded-port (standard-error-port)

[Larceny-users] Common Larceny and the CLR

2010-10-15 Thread David Rush
So is Common Larceny code callable from within other CLR programs yet? I haven't really noticed much development in that area lately david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list

[Larceny-users] Generating interoperable closures

2010-06-04 Thread David Rush
Hello all - I'm looking at doing quite a bit of language protoyping with what are basically Schemely semantics, and I was wondering just how difficult it is to generate my own closures that will play correctly with the rest of the Larceny run-time. Actually, I'm wondering even more if there is a

[Larceny-users] difficulty with callback

2010-01-26 Thread David Rush
Hi there, In working with this foreign function definition: (define rtaudio-open-stream (foreign-procedure RTAWOpenStream '(void* ; DAC object (maybe void*) ; output params (maybe void*) ;

Re: [Larceny-users] difficulty with callback

2010-01-26 Thread David Rush
what I expected :) Or rather, the high-level syntax problem doesn't have an obviously nice solution, so I do sympathize. In the meantime, I have filed this as Ticket #660. Great, thank you. david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt

Re: [Larceny-users] MinGW and the FFI

2009-12-17 Thread David Rush
2009/12/13 Philippos Apolinarius phi50...@yahoo.ca There is no secret or difficulty in using a MinGW dll from larceny Well it's pretty clear that I was suffering from some kind of a brain fart. After rebuilding everything in my DLL and working with the lowest levels of the larceny FFI

[Larceny-users] Larceny 0.97 crask on Win2K3 server

2009-11-12 Thread David Rush
I can't get larceny.bin to even start up. The system appears to crash right after printing the banner. Subsequently, u$oft tries to invoke the VS debugger. Any suggestions? This is a moderately pressing issue for deploying a small piece of server infrastructure... david -- GPG Public key at

Re: [Larceny-users] Larceny 0.97 crask on Win2K3 server

2009-11-12 Thread David Rush
2009/11/12 Felix Klock felixlu...@pnkfx.org On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Felix Klock wrote: David (cc'ing larceny-users)- On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:13 AM, David Rush wrote: I can't get larceny.bin to even start up. The system appears to crash right after printing the banner. Subsequently, u

[Larceny-users] Bug in syntax-rules expander (R6RS semantics changed?)

2009-09-25 Thread David Rush
a pernicious minor change, if it is. david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users

Re: [Larceny-users] relationships between Larceny, ERR5RS, and R6RS

2009-09-24 Thread David Rush
have missed the bit that says they are already there in R5RS mode. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https

Re: [Larceny-users] writing values writes the first value only

2009-06-04 Thread David Rush
of those things where the explicit use of a continuation function is both conceptually cleaner and easier to use than the built-in solution (CALL_WITH_VALUES ? !! ick...) DISCLAIMER: I am part of the multiple-values is evil camp david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public

Re: [Larceny-users] writing values writes the first value only

2009-06-04 Thread David Rush
2009/6/4 Abdulaziz Ghuloum aghul...@gmail.com: On Jun 4, 2009, at 10:32 AM, David Rush wrote: This is one of those things where the explicit use of a continuation function is both conceptually cleaner and easier to use than the built-in solution This is self-contradictory. No it isn't

Re: [Larceny-users] [ikarus-users] [plt-scheme] Re: side effects in R6RS modules

2009-05-06 Thread David Rush
2009/5/6 Ramana Kumar ramana.ku...@gmail.com: is there a good argument for set! to return unspecified? Because Scheme is not C. Or C++ for that matter. In more obfuscated terms: Mixing the state monad with referentially transparent expressions is generally a bad idea. Scheme believes

Re: [Larceny-users] A Floating Hole

2009-04-27 Thread David Rush
2009/4/27 William D Clinger w...@ccs.neu.edu: David Rush wrote: (cos (acos 0)) 6.123233995736766e-17 on Larceny. Now it appears that this is an inescapable feature of the C runtime; Indeed, it illustrates the inescapable misfeature known as roundoff error. Yup. I actually got here

[Larceny-users] A Floating Hole

2009-04-26 Thread David Rush
I am currently moderately annoyed that: -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users

[Larceny-users] Bootstrapping...

2009-04-21 Thread David Rush
Hi y'all - What was once merely an annoying invocation has grown to become a difficult-to-perform ritual. I am of course referring the the bootstrapping of Larceny in the cases where there is any kind of a library mismatch from the supported distributions. Specifically, not only is Larceny

Re: [Larceny-users] Bootstrapping...

2009-04-21 Thread David Rush
2009/4/21 Marco Maggi marco.maggi-i...@poste.it: David Rush wrote: I am of course referring the bootstrapping of Larceny in the cases where there is any kind of a library mismatch from the supported distributions. So something is preventing you from trying to boot Larceny using a Larceny

[Larceny-users] Fwd: Bootstrapping...

2009-04-21 Thread David Rush
Worthy of notice on the liist, hence forwarded. Thank you Lynn -- Forwarded message -- From: Lynn Winebarger owine...@gmail.com Date: 2009/4/21 Subject: Re: [Larceny-users] Bootstrapping... To: David Rush kumoy...@gmail.com Hi David, FWIW, PLT has an undocumented dislike of gcc

[Larceny-users] Regarding +inf.0

2009-04-17 Thread David Rush
I suspect that this is a behavior specified by R6RS, but why isn't +inf.0 EQ? to itself? It is currently EQV? and EQUAL?, so I'm a little confused. david -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list

Re: [Larceny-users] Regarding +inf.0

2009-04-17 Thread David Rush
.0 appears to be a singleton does not mean that it is *in fact* one. I presume that none of the RnRS series addresses this. I should elevate that to almost certainly; inexacts have always been kinda funky. david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt

Re: [Larceny-users] define-macro library

2009-02-13 Thread David Rush
Just off the top of my head this sounds like a classic phasing error. The macro is actually expanded in an entirely different context from its apparent definition. I believe that R6RS has language regarding whether definitions are to be available at expansion-time or at run-time in the spirit of

Re: [Larceny-users] on porting to larceny

2008-12-27 Thread David Rush
to debug the thing and it's turned out to be staggeringly useful as time has gone on... david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https://lists.ccs.neu.edu

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-24 Thread David Rush
2008/12/24 Marco Maggi marco.maggi-i...@poste.it: Can I ask for a word on the status of the FFI? I do not strictly need the callbacks right now, but can I trust the callout mechanism and the raw pokers and peekers? Well this falls into the works for me category, but it works for me :) I

[Larceny-users] Probably not a bug in R6RS, but...

2008-12-15 Thread David Rush
, but I still think that this half-functional situation is odd. It looks like maybe there is some interference with the lexer... Should I report this as a bug? david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users

Re: [Larceny-users] recursive lists and C-c problems

2008-12-08 Thread David Rush
2008/12/8 Marco Maggi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Maggi wrote: After hitting C-c, I see that the debugger is here and I can exit it with q. And I am left with a prompt? Yes. It isn't a very useful prompt, since nothing is in scope, but it's a prompt. Nothing is

[Larceny-users] Probably a daft question

2008-08-19 Thread David Rush
development. Besides, PLT's GUI system makes me crazy :) david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users

[Larceny-users] A very broken error message

2008-08-17 Thread David Rush
The transcript below says it all. Yes, the macro is erroneous, but I made this mistake in the middle of a much larger macro definition, and well...cdr: () is not a pair just isn't very informative, although now that I know what went wrong I can see how it would arise. I don't know if this is bad

Re: [Larceny-users] stdout from larceny

2008-05-31 Thread David Rush
this code, just pass on a clue, and I will make it publicly available, either by posting here or on my web-site. david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu

[Larceny-users] Another wee FFI question

2008-01-01 Thread David Rush
to this in the source tree docs, so a pointer to my blind spot would also be appreciated) david rush -- Once you label me, you negate me - Soren Kierkegaard ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo

Re: [Larceny-users] sockets on linux 2.4

2007-12-31 Thread David Rush
On Dec 31, 2007 1:56 PM, David Rush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again - It looks like the socket code is broken on linux 2.4 series kernels because WCONTINUED and and WNOWAIT were unsupported before the 2.5 kernel series. I am looking into patching it, but I thought I should post in case

[Larceny-users] Fwd: [gambit-list] Web Framework

2007-11-03 Thread David Rush
Just in case anyone is working on this... -- Forwarded message -- From: David Rush [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 3, 2007 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [gambit-list] Web Framework To: Marc Feeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/3/07, Marc Feeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3-Nov-07, at 11:48 AM

Re: [Larceny-users] boxed vs. void* in the Larceny FFI on Windows

2007-07-22 Thread David Rush
On 7/22/07, Felix Klock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 22, 2007, at 6:08 PM, David Rush wrote: SO can someone tell me what the difference is between boxed and void* in the (require 'std-ffi) layer? *And* how to pass a null pointer to a call-out in a reliable fashion? I'll write up a more

[Larceny-users] I'm fairly sure that I'm going to hate the answer to this question

2007-07-21 Thread David Rush
But is there support in Larceny on Windows for TCP/socket communication yet? I assume that it is available in the .NET stuff somewhere... david -- Once you label me, you negate me - Soren Kierkegaard ___ Larceny-users mailing list

[Larceny-users] Getting unix-era time in Larceny

2007-03-26 Thread David Rush
to procedures at the repl. And just to be difficult, I do need it to work on windows :) Any suggestions? david rush -- Once you label me, you negate me - Soren Kierkegaard ___ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https