FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017

[Pjotr Prins]

FOSDEM 2017 call for proposals has started:

  https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/

We need help with writing the proposal (we can build on last years
this time), we need help on selecting talks and we need help creating
the schedule. Finally, if we get a slot, we need help to organise the
day.

Who wants to be part of this exciting day? 

Pj.

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:35:45AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Alex Sassmannshausen writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Ludovic Courtès writes:
> >
> >> Hi there!
> >>
> >> I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with
> >> nice people and great talks!
> >
> > I really want to echo Ludo's sentiments.  I had a great time in our dev
> > room and it was really nice to put faces to the names I see popping up
> > in IRC and on the mailing list. I really hope we'll be able to do this
> > again next year!
> 
> An extra echo from me.
> 
> >> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
> >> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
> >> the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
> >> The transition with the Lua track that followed was also insightful and
> >> a pleasant experience.
> 
> I was optimistic about this being a big moment in Guile's history, but
> after this FOSDEM, my enthusiasm and excitement has doubled, maybe
> tripled!  I can't wait to see what's happening in the year ahead!
> 
> >> I would like to send a big Thank You to Pjotr Prins who took the
> >> initiative and organized all this masterfully, from applying for the
> >> devroom, to contacting potential speakers (dozens and dozens of
> >> messages!), to getting up early on Saturday to make sure everything
> >> would be fine in the devroom…  Pjotr, you did an awesome job!
> >>
> >> Thanks to Paul van der Walt who also woke up early to help out with
> >> video in the devroom, and obviously, thanks to all the speakers and
> >> attendees!
> >
> > +1 for sure.  Thank you very much for the commitment in time and energy!
> >
> > Alex
> 
> Yes, thank you! :)

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Source properties and the unexpanded source code

[Tommi Höynälänmaa]

Is it possible to access unexpanded source code information from the
expanded source code in psyntax.scm? When I look at the source
properties given to the build-xxx procedures there is only line
number, column number, and filename.

 - Tommi Höynälänmaa

Re: Announcement: Theme-D programming language

[Chaos Eternal]

Looks it is implemented using guile.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 5:24 AM Max 
wrote:

> Could you perhaps briefly summarize what this have to do with Guile?
>
> 23.07.2016 13:29, Tommi Höynälänmaa пишет:
> > Some properties of Theme-D language are:
> > * Static type system
> > * A simple object system
> > * Multi-methods dispatched runtime (and also compile-time)
> > * Parametrized (type parameters) classes, types, and procedures
> > * Signature types resembling Java interfaces but multiply dispatched.
> > * A module system
> > * Two kinds of variables: constants and mutable variables. The value of a
> > constant cannot be changed after the constant is created.
> >
> > Changes in version 0.9.3 are:
> > * Improved the explicit generic procedure dispatch.
> > * Simplified the foreign class interface.
> > * Corrected an error in the module system.
> > * Correction to mutable variable declarations.
> > * Corrected an error with method variable argument lists.
> > * Corrected a bug with param-proc-instance.
> > * Corrected the subtype checking algorithm for union types.
> > * A declared value can be used as a value of a constant.
> > * Type of a match-type expression may be  in some cases even
> though
> > an else part is not present.
> > * Implemented some list and string handling procedures into the standard
> > library.
> > * Better error messages for identical or noncovariant methods and
> erroneous
> > parametrized procedure instantiations.
> >
> > The homepage of Theme-D is located at:
> > http://www.iki.fi/tohoyn/theme-d/
> >
> >  - Tommi Höynälänmaa
> >
>
>
>