"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > This discussion has reminded me that I have a bunch of hastily typed > notes from Guix Days about this very topic! The notes touch upon a > number of things brought up in this thread. > [omitted] > - Easier to submit things that could be useful to Guile to Guix > instead; edit distance algorithm given as example I would also be a lot more hesitant to submit an algorithm that others might find useful to the guile stdlib rather than submiting a code that will be used in guix to guix, even if both were just as easy
In fact, a couple of years ago, I wrote a few string distance algorithms cuz I was interested in them (see https://codeberg.org/pinoaffe/guile-words/src/words/distances.scm), but I have no idea if (part of) that would be useful in the stdlib, and in what form Heck, I feel like there's even a lower barrier to submit such code as an SRFI or to suggest it for inclusion in R7RS than to send a patchset to guile. In the former cases I can expect that at least a handful of people will think & chat about whether/how this might be useful, which I'm less than sure would happen if this were to be submitted to guile Kind regards, pinoaffe
