Re: [Chicken-users] miscmacros hygienic

2008-05-28 Thread Kon Lovett
On May 28, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote: On 5/28/08, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use the "anaphoric" forms but not "in anger." Yeah, the above is more Scheme-ish but I suggest leaving "it." OK, I changed it back in my copy. The totally hygienic versions are still in there

Re: [Chicken-users] miscmacros hygienic

2008-05-28 Thread Jim Ursetto
On 5/28/08, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use the "anaphoric" forms but not "in anger." Yeah, the above is > more Scheme-ish but I suggest leaving "it." OK, I changed it back in my copy. The totally hygienic versions are still in there, just commented out. Anyway, hygienic if* is bas

Re: [Chicken-users] miscmacros hygienic

2008-05-28 Thread Kon Lovett
On May 28, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote: Thank you Jim for your recent life on the bleeding edge. (And Felix for expanding space.) I haven't visited yet so anything I say is subject to ignorance. I ported miscmacros (attached) to the hygienic branch and had a couple questions. Fir

Re: [Chicken-users] my first chicken 4 modules ;)

2008-05-28 Thread Jim Ursetto
On 5/28/08, felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2) Throw something like (display foobar), where foobar is unbound, >> into your module and at runtime it will actually display #> value> without throwing an error. If a procedure is unbound, it >> similarly complains about 'Error: ca

[Chicken-users] miscmacros hygienic

2008-05-28 Thread Jim Ursetto
I ported miscmacros (attached) to the hygienic branch and had a couple questions. First, is anyone using miscmacros? I was wondering about the following proposed change to the anaphoric macros: Current -> Proposed (if* x y z) -> (if* (it x) y z) (while* test body) -> (while*

Re: [Chicken-users] libsvm egg install problem

2008-05-28 Thread Daishi Kato
Hi, I've updated the egg (v1.1), which hopefully works fine. Please give it a try. I've been testing against debian libsvm package. --daishi At Tue, 27 May 2008 12:50:13 -0700, Tom Poliquin wrote: > > I'm trying to install the libsvm egg and not > having much success. > > The libsvm egg requir

Re: [Chicken-users] my first chicken 4 modules ;)

2008-05-28 Thread felix winkelmann
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Jim Ursetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also managed to port vector-lib.egg over. > > Minor issues encountered during the port: > > 1) Warnings aren't issued for unbound identifiers -- I spent a while > tracking down a weird error and it turns out I forgot to i