Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-24 Thread Marco Maggi
William D Clinger wrote: Here's a brief report on their status in the current development version of Larceny: [...] Thanks for all of this (the website restyling is also good). In the next weeks I will try to add support for Larceny to my infrastructure. Can I ask for a word on the status of the

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

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-24 Thread Felix Klock
On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Marco Maggi wrote: 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? I think those are all trust-worthy, and their interface is unlikely to

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-10 Thread William D Clinger
Jon Wells wrote: Has there ever been any discussion of allowing import clauses to appear anywhere other than the toplevel... Yes, there has been some discussion. However... So one could... (import (rnrs)) : (if some-arbitrary-condition (import (a guff))

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-10 Thread Jon Wells
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:20 -0500, William D Clinger wrote: Jon Wells wrote: Has there ever been any discussion of allowing import clauses to appear anywhere other than the toplevel... That would be a bad idea for several reasons. For one thing, the scope of the conditional imports would

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-09 Thread Jon Wells
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 23:11 -0500, William D Clinger wrote: v0.97 is also expected to allow dir-in-path/uriel/lang/compat.larceny.sls Slightly off topic but it seems to me that burying the name of an implementation in a file name as a mechanism for locating that implementation's

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-09 Thread Marco Maggi
Jon Wells wrote: Has there ever been any discussion of allowing import clauses to appear anywhere other than the toplevel... I cannot speak for R6RS requests, but Ikarus allows it in non-R6RS mode. -- Marco Maggi Now feel the funk blast! Rage Against the Machine - Calm like a bomb

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-08 Thread William D Clinger
Marco Moggie wrote: Of course I can write a shell script that makes use of an environment variable to build the -path argument, but... make it simple! You could, for example, edit the startup.sch file documented in sections 3.2.4 of Larceny's User Manual. If you prefer to use an environment

Re: [Larceny-users] finding libraries

2008-12-08 Thread Marco Maggi
William D Clinger wrote: Marco Moggie wrote: (I am not a cat :-) You could, for example, edit the startup.sch file documented in sections 3.2.4 of Larceny's User Manual. If you prefer to use an environment variable, then you could edit the shell scripts provided with Larceny. All of this