[Chicken-users] [ANN] Chicken Installer for Windows 4.8.0.1

2013-02-21 Thread Răzvan Rotaru
Hi, I just updated the chicken installer to version 4.8.0.1. You can get it at https://bitbucket.org/roti/chicken-installer/downloads. Enjoy, Răzvan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] Chicken Installer for Windows 4.8.0.1

2013-02-21 Thread Дмитрий
Mulțumesc! It's very nice to have an easy-to-use installer for Windows. Hi, I just updated the chicken installer to version 4.8.0.1. You can get it at https://bitbucket.org/roti/chicken-installer/downloads. Enjoy, Răzvan -- Best regards, Dmitry Kushnariov

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread Nicholas Van Horn
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Dan Leslie d...@ironoxide.ca wrote: Nice work, contributions are greatly appreciated. :) Since you're asking for constructive feedback, two things come to mind: It's a matter of taste, but IMHO it's schemier that *descriptive-variable*is preferable to

[Chicken-users] documenting eggs

2013-02-21 Thread Hugo Arregui
Hi people, some questions regarding egg docs: 1) I understand that the egg doc should be added to the wiki, but I suppose that it should respect a particular format to be compatible with chickadee, I'm right? where I can found it? 2) Is there any tools for this? I found the cock egg, but I

Re: [Chicken-users] documenting eggs

2013-02-21 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Hugo, On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:52:24 -0300 Hugo Arregui hugo.arre...@gmail.com wrote: some questions regarding egg docs: 1) I understand that the egg doc should be added to the wiki, but I suppose that it should respect a particular format to be compatible with chickadee, I'm right? where

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
On Feb 20 2013, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: join-strings, and string-match or match-string. Another is to keep the s- prefix, which is a natural grouping. Or you could require the user to prefix on import, but if that's always needed due to conflicts, why make them go through the extra

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread John Cowan
Jörg F. Wittenberger scripsit: I've been in this situation often enough. My boiler-plate solution is to create yet another module which imports all of the prefixed (in this case this would be the s- prefixed stuff), bind them to the names sans prefix and export again. Then ipon import

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread Dan Leslie
I've proposed a new type of import specifier to go with prefix, namely drop-prefix. Rather than prefixing all names, this removes the prefix from any names that have it. This would be a Good Thing to add to Chicken; Chibi already has it, and it is part of a proposal for R7RS-large. That

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Feb 21, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: On Feb 20 2013, Mario Domenech Goulart [well, actually, I, Jim] wrote: join-strings, and string-match or match-string. Another is to keep the s- prefix, which is a natural grouping. Or you could require the user to prefix on import,

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:04 PM, John Cowan wrote: I've proposed a new type of import specifier to go with prefix, namely drop-prefix. Rather than prefixing all names, this removes the prefix from any names that have it. This would be a Good Thing to add to Chicken; Chibi already has it, and it

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
On Feb 21 2013, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: On 21 Feb 2013 20:50:16 +0100 Jörg F. Wittenberger joerg.wittenber...@softeyes.net wrote: On Feb 20 2013, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: join-strings, and string-match or match-string. Another is to keep the s- prefix, which is a natural

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread John Cowan
Jim Ursetto scripsit: I've proposed a new type of import specifier to go with prefix, namely drop-prefix. Rather than prefixing all names, this removes the prefix from any names that have it. This would be a Good Thing to add to Chicken; Chibi already has it, and it is part of a

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread John Cowan
Dan Leslie scripsit: Of course it would, and the Perl substitute command would be more general still. For that matter, you could allow an arbitrary Scheme procedure to be provided. But drop-prefix is dead simple, has precedent, and is easy to understand and use. Why not have both? Okay,

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread Dan Leslie
Of course it would, and the Perl substitute command would be more general still. For that matter, you could allow an arbitrary Scheme procedure to be provided. But drop-prefix is dead simple, has precedent, and is easy to understand and use. Why not have both? -Dan

[Chicken-users] using types

2013-02-21 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Somehow I can't verify that my type declarations are actually effective. So far I noticed that when I make usage-error wrt. types I - within a single file that is - get an error in tje compilation step.. Which is what I like. Now that I've got a .types file for each module, I tried to enforce

Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

2013-02-21 Thread John Croisant
On 2/21/13 9:55 AM, Nicholas Van Horn wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Dan Leslie d...@ironoxide.ca mailto:d...@ironoxide.ca wrote: I'm not certain what you intended by 'official', but if you meant that you'd like to see it packaged with Chicken then perhaps you should

Re: [Chicken-users] documenting eggs

2013-02-21 Thread Hugo Arregui
Thanks Mario, Dan. Very useful information as usual!. Regards, Hugo ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users