Thanks everyone! It helped me quite a lot :)

Cheers!

On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 at 21:06 Evan Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Federico, and welcome.
>
> Stylistically, a cond expression like this[1] can be more clearly
> written as a case (http://api.call-cc.org/doc/scheme/case).
>
> Similarly, this[2] can be rewritten as a case if you make `string-head`
> return characters rather than strings of length one. This will also be
> much more efficient. Your string helpers should also probably use
> string-length, ref, et al. as well, rather than converting back and
> forth to a list, which is quite wasteful.
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/gosukiwi/chicken-brainfuck/blob/master/src/parser.scm#L72
> [2]:
> https://github.com/gosukiwi/chicken-brainfuck/blob/master/src/tokenizer.scm#L10
>
> On 2015-11-28 20:25, Matt Gushee wrote:
> > http://api.call-cc.org/doc/ [...] Look for the 'chickadee' egg.
>
> +1. There is also the chicken-doc egg, if you fancy the command line:
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/chicken-doc
>
> > Also, I glanced at your code; I noticed you were using various (declare
> > (unit ...)) and (declare (uses ...)) declarations. As I understand it,
> > those declarations may or may not be formally deprecated, but they are
> not
> > much used any more; the general practice these days is to use modules
> > rather than units.
>
> Declaration are very useful, but it's true that they're most useful when
> you know your way around the toolchain fairly well, and have specific
> ideas about how you want the compiler to behave. People coming from
> high-level languages usually find modules more intuitive, especially as
> a way to organize code.
>
> On 2015-11-29  1:11, fedekun wrote:
> > (Oh btw, any recommended book on Scheme which I follow along using
> > CHICKEN?)
>
> My personal favorite is TSPL, which is a fantastic book for learning
> Scheme (R5RS, not CHICKEN in particular): http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Evan
>
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