[Chicken-users] ANN: eggs"srfi-27, srfi-41, mathh

Hi, srfi-27 now supports random-source composition. some minor speed-up. initialization bug fix for MWC & MOA. srfi-41 is a port of the R5RS reference implementation. mathh installs an extension w/ R6RS bitwise functions. bug fix for Cygwin compile. Best Wishes, Kon _

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

all of these are registered to prevent namespace pollution by squatters, now. (except chickenscheme.com, which was already taken by squatters). they'll be pointing to call-with-current-continuation.org as soon as the nice person who handles my dns since my computer caught on fire can update the

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

Add another vote for chickenscheme.org as well. I usually type "Chicken Scheme" in the Google search box, because the call-with... stuff is too long. As for paying for the domain, I wanted to donate some money back when there was a donate button on the main site, but the donation page was all in

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

On Feb 16, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Matt Gushee wrote: felix winkelmann wrote: So, it isn't intentionally that way, it's just what the code does. Thanks for clearing that up. By the way, I want to say that I really wasn't looking for an argument. My initial question was a bit abrupt, and I was

Re: [Chicken-users] Problem w/ Meroon

felix winkelmann wrote: I just committed a fix (well, I don't know whether it really fixes anything as I don't understand the code, Brave of you to admit that :-) So is this thing safe to use? A new egg should be automatically updated soon. Not yet. But I'll try again later and let you kno

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

felix winkelmann wrote: So, it isn't intentionally that way, it's just what the code does. Thanks for clearing that up. By the way, I want to say that I really wasn't looking for an argument. My initial question was a bit abrupt, and I was too quick to use the word "bug." I think there's a

[Chicken-users] My language trajectory

@ University: (Algol W & Snobol 4 & 360 BAL & Fortran 4 - course work, not too serious) PL/M-80 (used in grant work) Forth (just to learn) P-System Pascal & Prolog (wrote interpreter for P-System so both serious) Smalltalk (well, sort of, designed & began implementation then learned of Sma

Re: [Chicken-users] Problem w/ Meroon

On Feb 16, 2008 11:58 PM, Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all-- > > I wanted to try the Meroon object system, so I installed the Meroon egg > (about 2 days ago, so I guess it's up to date; also, I have Chicken > 3.0.0). I then tried evaluating the examples from the _Meroon by > Example

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

On Feb 17, 2008 1:46 AM, Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does string= in Chicken return an integer because it is considered >more useful than #t? And if so, how? Or was it simply easier to >implement the function that way? > It does this because chicken uses the reference imp

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

Elf wrote: please read the srfi doc for what string= means. it involves the index of the char not following/following certain lexicogaphical ordering constraints, Yes, I read that, and I can guess that a result of N means that the strings are equal up to the Nth code point. But: and sho

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki spam merging issue

problem is as follows, methinks: when something fails auth, it still is saved to a reject file, just like normal svn. the problem is that once something succeeds in auth, then any rejects are automatically appended. now, we cant just get rid of rejects in the event that someone mistypes the

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki spam merging issue

This makes sense. However, since spam is apparently bypassing authorization --the index page can't be edited anonymously--and also logging, I was concerned there is a more critical underlying problem. It might even affect more than the index page. On 2/16/08, felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki spam merging issue

On Feb 17, 2008 12:22 AM, felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008 6:32 AM, Jim Ursetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It appears that authorized, legitimate wiki edits to random pages are > > causing > > simultaneous commits to the 'index' page, which consists of

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

On Feb 16, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Matt Gushee wrote: Elf wrote: string= != string=? Well, okay, as far as that goes. Maybe I should have mentioned that I am more-or-less a newbie ... this is my 2nd or 3rd time learning Scheme, so I know a few things, but my vocabulary and knowledge of which

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

please read the srfi doc for what string= means. it involves the index of the char not following/following certain lexicogaphical ordering constraints, and should be returning an integer. -elf On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Matt Gushee wrote: Elf wrote: string= != string=? Well, okay, as far as

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

Elf wrote: string= != string=? Well, okay, as far as that goes. Maybe I should have mentioned that I am more-or-less a newbie ... this is my 2nd or 3rd time learning Scheme, so I know a few things, but my vocabulary and knowledge of which functions are where are quite limited, e.g., I had f

Re: [Chicken-users] new egg etiquette

> > This won't release an egg, or mess with any of the server-side tasks, will > it? > > No. Only if tags/xxx exists. > (or if you omit the trunk dir and a .meta file exists) cheers, felix ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki spam merging issue

On Feb 16, 2008 6:32 AM, Jim Ursetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that authorized, legitimate wiki edits to random pages are causing > simultaneous commits to the 'index' page, which consists of spam in the > form of an SVN merge conflict. > Can someone look into this? > I thin

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

heh, my serious trajectory was ... gw-basic (bleh!), logo, lpc, c, c++, scheme, prolog, scheme, java, scheme, lisp, scheme, scheme, scheme... (feel free to sing this to monty python's spam song, or to the 4-2-1 problem if youd rather...) ... and my job is also (unfortunately) mostly c++ based.

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

> For the record, my language trajectory (where I've actually written serious > code) is C, Java, Python, Lisp, Scheme. Mine was Pascal, C, C++, Java, Scheme (omitted less-serious stuff: Logo, BASIC and Fortran from high school, Prolog, Perl... I've never spent a lot of time with Perl but use it o

[Chicken-users] new domains!

chickenscheme.org chickenscheme.net chicken-scheme.com chicken-scheme.org chicken-scheme.net (someone has already parked on chickenscheme.com, unfortunately. this should prevent people from doing anything nasty to the namespace.) where should i point these at? -elf

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

string= != string=? -elf On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Matt Gushee wrote: What's up with this? CHICKEN Version 3.0.0 - linux-unix-gnu-x86 [ manyargs dload ptables applyhook ] ... csi> (require-extension srfi-13) ; loading library srfi-13 ... csi> (require-extension posix) ; loading lib

[Chicken-users] Problem w/ Meroon

Hi, all-- I wanted to try the Meroon object system, so I installed the Meroon egg (about 2 days ago, so I guess it's up to date; also, I have Chicken 3.0.0). I then tried evaluating the examples from the _Meroon by Example_ section of the docs. The first few were fine, but then: (define-me

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

on the subject of paying for it, i dont mind paying for the domains (and when my main box is back up, hosting it as well, though in the meantime ill just point em at peoples domain of choice in the chicken world). so dont worry about that on my account, its the least i can do. -elf On Sat, 1

[Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

What's up with this? CHICKEN Version 3.0.0 - linux-unix-gnu-x86[ manyargs dload ptables applyhook ] ... csi> (require-extension srfi-13) ; loading library srfi-13 ... csi> (require-extension posix) ; loading library posix ... csi> (define sysname (car (system-information

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

Graham Fawcett wrote: +1 chickenscheme.org for me too. +1 from me too. I like cleverness of call-with-current-continuation.org . But it seems as if Chicken is growing up, and a boring-but-descriptive domain name is a g

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

+1 on chickenscheme or chicken-scheme I've recommended chicken to a few people who are new to scheme and trying to explain what call/cc and call-with-current-continuation are to new scheme users is a bit overwhelming :) On Feb 16, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Elf wrote: as it comes around time to d

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

> Perhaps we should also add a more inviting home-page. Maybe some photos > of managers and developers smiling at a table, shaking hands. With > everyone wearing nice suits. I'm on board with cleaning up the web site(s). No suits. > BTW, how are we paying for this suff? It's nice to have a volun

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

On Feb 16, 2008 8:11 AM, Hans Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Fredrickson wrote: > > I suggest we draft Hans (http://4.flowsnake.org/) for the Python doc. > :-) > I was actually going to write such a document last year... the Python > programmer's guide to Chicken, or something. As it tur

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

On Feb 16, 2008 3:53 PM, Toby Butzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 chickenscheme.org for me too. +1 from me too. I like cleverness of call-with-current-continuation.org. But it seems as if Chicken is growing up, and a boring-but-descriptive domain name is a good idea to welcome and retain new

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

I'll cast my ballot for chickenscheme as well. Elf wrote: as it comes around time to do my yearly domain registrations (not involving chicken), i happened to notice that many chicken-based domain names are not currently taken, like chickenscheme.org/net/com, chicken-scheme.org/net/com, scheme

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

+1 chickenscheme.org for me too. BTW, if anyone finds they have some ambition and think callcc.org can be put to better use, I'm open. --TB On Feb 16, 2008 12:42 PM, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (+ 1 vote) for chickenscheme.org > > > On 16/02/2008, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > as

Re: [Chicken-users] domain query

(+ 1 vote) for chickenscheme.org On 16/02/2008, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as it comes around time to do my yearly domain registrations (not involving > chicken), i happened to notice that many chicken-based domain names are > not currently taken, like chickenscheme.org/net/com, > chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] Egg Atom/RSS feed.

On Feb 16, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Leonardo Valeri Manera wrote: On 16/02/2008, Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about a feed with only brand new eggs in and no updates? Well, seeing as chicken-setup has no -update command, The "meta-setup" egg does. Produces the "chicken-meta-setup

Re: [Chicken-users] Egg Atom/RSS feed.

On 16/02/2008, Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about a feed with only brand new eggs in and no updates? Well, seeing as chicken-setup has no -update command, the only way to find out when a new egg version is released is a) keep an eye on the logs/lists manually and try to glean th

Re: [Chicken-users] Egg Atom/RSS feed.

On 16/02/2008, Leonardo Valeri Manera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Feb 2008 18:08:41 -0200, Mario Domenech Goulart > > Nah, Arto has solved our problem long ago! :-) > > http://trac.callcc.org/log/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss > > Substitute by the name of the egg you want the RSS

Re: [Chicken-users] Egg Atom/RSS feed.

On 15 Feb 2008 18:08:41 -0200, Mario Domenech Goulart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, Arto has solved our problem long ago! :-) > > http://trac.callcc.org/log/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss > > Substitute by the name of the egg you want the RSS for. I was actually thinking of an egg-re

[Chicken-users] domain query

as it comes around time to do my yearly domain registrations (not involving chicken), i happened to notice that many chicken-based domain names are not currently taken, like chickenscheme.org/net/com, chicken-scheme.org/net/com, schemechicken.org/net/com, etc etc etc. two questions: a) do a maj

Re: [Chicken-users] new egg etiquette

On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Graham Fawcett wrote: Hi folks, I just started a new egg in the svn repo. It's nothing worth looking at yet, I just want to make sure I didn't do something stupid that would break anything. Here's what I did: cd release/3/ svn mkdir locality svn mkdir localit

[Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

Mark Fredrickson wrote: With a high probibility that Chicken users will be coming from other PLs, I think a series of "Chicken for Python Programmers", "Chicken for Ruby Programmers", etc could be very helpful. Where are my hashes? How do I do string concatenation? Where are my objects? These

Re: [Chicken-users] YADT: yet another documentation thread

I am not sure I want to compare the transition of ML -> Scheme with for example Python -> Scheme, because ML and Scheme evolved along similar trajectories -- Peter Landin's ISWIM family of programming languages, which gave rise to ML, is a lambda-calculus based language with lexical scope very s