On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:06:16AM -0400, Felix wrote: > Hello! > > > It would be good to be able to show available eggs when installing an egg, > > such > > that user can grep and find wanted eggs quickly without having to browse at > > http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg- index-4.html. Simply a text > > dump > > of that html page would help much. > > That is possible, but would require a regularly updated "master" document > somewhere > on our server.
Like "egg-locations" in the new distributed system? ;) http://bugs.call-cc.org/browser/release/4/egg-locations > > P.S. The mixture of tabs and space in the source codes really cause a > > headache > > for the indention.. > > What editor are you using? I agree that TabsAreEvil in Scheme/Lisp code. Even with emacs, it's highly dependent on your tab width. Suppose I indented the following piece of code using tabs with a tab setting of 4: (define (foo) (if (whatever) (print "whatever") (print "not whatever"))) and you view it with a tab setting of 8, you'd get: (define (foo) (if (whatever) (print "whatever") (print "not whatever"))) When indenting with tab setting 8 and viewing with tab setting 4, you get the opposite thing (things not indented far enough). With Lisp/Scheme code, the only sensible indentation style really is spaces. With braces-like languages like C it makes sense to use tabs if used consistently, but even there it's a good source of flamewars. Because if you consistently indent and have set tabs to 8, it looks like this on the screen: int main(void) { if (whatever) { printf("blah\n"); } } When someone with tabs set to 4 views this code, he or she will see the following: int main(void) { if (whatever) { printf("blah\n"); } } See also http://emacswiki.org/TabsAreEvil Cheers, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." -- Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
