On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 04:41:54PM +0000, Mario domenech Goulart wrote: > Hi Felix and all, > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:53:22 +0200 (CEST) Felix Winkelmann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is just a proposal. What do others think? > > Thanks for your message. This is all very exciting and I'm totally for > shrinking the core. > > Not related with removing units from the core, but since we are talking > about CHICKEN 5, shouldn't we consider discussing some polemic topics > like the support for Unicode and bignums in core? Those are limitations > that recently lead to some ugly hacks (some examples in [1]) and bugs > (e.g., [2]). > > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2014-07/msg00017.html > > [2] http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1139 >
Yes please. The current way we're doing this is needlessly complex. I don't think I'll ever have as much fun writing parsers as I did when I could use ASCII character tables, but the one remaining use case I have for solving problems in ASCII is preventing a terminal snow crash when dumping core--the program is already on it's way out and can solve encoding problems mañana. That use case hardly justifies the work it takes to get Chicken to be a first class citizen. I would generally vote we take the most frequenly used eggs and integrate them in to core, but as I fully appreciate the argument against doing so I sure would like to ask instead for utf-8 and numbers. Thank you, -a -- analytics in physical space: http://venueview.co/ my personal website: http://c0redump.org/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
