Re: [Chicken-users] MSVC makefile and patches

2008-02-22 Thread felix winkelmann
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The build runs on msys with no problems. Tomorrow I plan to add a setup for cmd.exe, so a user only needs to have gnu make installed to build chicken for visual c. That seems like a pretty low barrier for windows users.

[Chicken-users] Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-22 Thread felix winkelmann
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm, what's the motivation for this? To keep egg sources for released but old versions, with the option of maintaining them. It's quite frustrating (as all of us know), that if I reinstall some eggs (say on a new

Re: [Chicken-users] MSVC makefile and patches

2008-02-22 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Feb 22, at 01:08, felix winkelmann wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] games.com wrote: The build runs on msys with no problems. Tomorrow I plan to add a setup for cmd.exe, so a user only needs to have gnu make installed to build chicken for visual c.

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-22 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Feb 21, at 23:57, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: As such, I will need more convincing before implementing support for indexentry. I don't see what it adds that we can't already do. Ok, I see that it would allow arbitrary pages to declare sub-topics of a given topic, but I don't think

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-22 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 21 Feb 2008, at 8:13 pm, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: What percentage of the eggs do we really expect to require different code for each Chicken release? I would imagine that the percentage is very small, but I don't really know... I'd hope it to be few, and would want to handle it

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Stupid backquote/unquote question

2008-02-22 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 21 Feb 2008, at 3:39 pm, Hans Nowak wrote: (Which leads me to wonder, *are* there Lisps/Schemes that have first-class macros? Where you can, for example, pass a macro as an argument to map, the way you can do with a function?) There can be, in principle, but they wouldn't be very

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-22 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:34:36 +0100 Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:38:25AM -0800, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: So what about the idea of adding a (supported-releases 2.3 3.0.0) tag to the meta file, where particular versions of an egg that needs to do so

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-22 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 22 Feb 2008, at 10:56 am, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: I'd hope it to be few, and would want to handle it with a suitable macro around the afflicted bits of code, rather than duplicating the whole source file... Yes, that'd seem a more reasonable approach, I'd have to say... Alejo,

[Chicken-users] understanding eval

2008-02-22 Thread Daishi Kato
Hi, This might be a stupid question, but would someone help me understand the following eval example? I was expecting to get 1. Daishi 8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8-- CHICKEN Version 2.732 - linux-unix-gnu-x86 [ manyargs dload ptables applyhook cross ]

Re: [Chicken-users] understanding eval

2008-02-22 Thread Peter Bex
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:22:36PM +0900, Daishi Kato wrote: Hi, This might be a stupid question, but would someone help me understand the following eval example? I was expecting to get 1. You're evaluating (car (1 2 3)) You want to be evaluating (car (list 1 2 3)) or (car (quote (1 2 3)))

Re: [Chicken-users] understanding eval

2008-02-22 Thread Daishi Kato
OK, so that was stupid. How about this? (define a 'values) (define b '((1 2 3) #(4 5 6)) I'd like to evaluate (values '(1 2 3) '#(4 5 6)) using eval, a and b. --daishi At Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:29:55 +0100, Peter Bex wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:22:36PM +0900, Daishi Kato wrote: Hi,

Re: [Chicken-users] understanding eval

2008-02-22 Thread Peter Bex
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:57:42PM +0900, Daishi Kato wrote: OK, so that was stupid. How about this? (define a 'values) (define b '((1 2 3) #(4 5 6)) I'd like to evaluate (values '(1 2 3) '#(4 5 6)) using eval, a and b. More of the same: (eval (cons a (map (cut list 'quote ) b)))

Re: [Chicken-users] aliases in the wiki

2008-02-22 Thread felix winkelmann
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tweaked a bit the code in Svnwiki a bit to support defining aliases for functions in the wiki. My thinking is that (1) for all procedures f, http://chicken.wiki.br/f should return something useful,

Re: [Chicken-users] aliases in the wiki

2008-02-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
Could we please remove this? It makes a grep over the working copy impossible. Hi Felix. What about: find -P . -print0 | xargs -0 grep TEXT Regards, N.- -- http://arhuaco.org ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] aliases in the wiki

2008-02-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we please remove this? It makes a grep over the working copy impossible. Hi Felix. What about: find -P . -print0 | xargs -0 grep TEXT Sorry. It is: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep TEXT N.-

Re: [Chicken-users] aliases in the wiki

2008-02-22 Thread Felix Winkelmann
From: Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] aliases in the wiki Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:04:34 -0500 On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we please remove this? It makes a grep over the working copy impossible.