bug#24186: setlocale can't be localised

2016-08-08 Thread Zefram
In Guile 1.8 it was possible to localise the effect of a setlocale operation, but in Guile 2.0 it's no longer possible by natural use of the locale API. This loss of a useful facility is either a bug or something that needs to be discussed in the documentation. In Guile 1.8 one could perform a

bug#24186: setlocale can't be localised

2016-08-08 Thread Andy Wingo
Greets :) Firstly, just to make sure that we are getting things right in 2.2 (and if not we need to know), would you mind testing with the latest 2.1.x release? Also, do you have a concrete program whose behavior you expect to be different? I appreciate the call-with-locale example but I'm not

bug#18932: [Anand Mohanadoss] symbol printing problem

2016-08-08 Thread Andy Wingo
--- Begin Message --- Hi, We observed the following with guile 2.0.11 - scheme@(guile-user)> (define sym '912828S7912810RS) While reading expression: ERROR: In procedure string->number: Value out of range: 7912810 Is this expected? Do we need to enable any read-options? If this is expected,

bug#22833: Bug#816123: guile-2.0-libs: guile-procedures.txt is actually port-dependent

2016-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Andy Wingo writes: > Confirmed. I guess we could put this in libdir somehow. I wonder if we > shouldn't take advantage of the opportunity to do something more > sensible and extensible... the easy thing to do would be to just keep > doing the same thing though. I suppose for

bug#22833: Bug#816123: guile-2.0-libs: guile-procedures.txt is actually port-dependent

2016-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> Confirmed. I guess we could put this in libdir somehow. I wonder if we >> shouldn't take advantage of the opportunity to do something more >> sensible and extensible... the easy thing to do would be to just