Hello, Jon Herron <jon.her...@yahoo.com> writes:
> Sure, that sounds fine to me. I definitely understand wanting to > promote Scheme over PHP from a GNU point of view, for me personally I > have to use PHP at work and any potential chance to slide some Scheme > in the mix would be welcome (to me at least). Yeah, I think that’s typically something that people choosing to use Guile-PHP would enjoy. > I chose Guile as my Scheme implementation mainly due to the compiler > tower, example language implementations and mention of a PHP > translator under the cool ideas section. I understand this was not a > firm desire, nor guarantee of acceptance on the projects behalf. I > have not regretted my decision to use Guile one bit, and plan to > continue Guile-PHP as time permits. If a merge is beneficial in the > future that's great, if not no hard feelings. OK. > With that being said, is there another area of the project that > would be beneficial for me to look at? I've seen various mentions of > the ECMAScript front-end but not sure what is needed there. Other > bugs? Desired libraries? First it needs to be fixed within the next few weeks because it fails to compile even simple expressions (see ‘ecmascript.test’). But maybe that’s on Andy’s to-do list? :-) Then my guess is that it mostly needs applications and use cases, which in turn may lead to specific requirements such as additional libraries. Thanks, Ludo’.
