[Chicken-users] CHICKEN Chapter 2

2013-09-05 Thread Tim van der Linden
Evening CHICKEN folk For all that are interested, I just released chapter two of my posts on CHICKEN on the good old shisaa.jp :-) Cheers! Tim ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

[Chicken-users] Questions/nitpicks about Posix I/O

2013-09-05 Thread Matt Gushee
Hello, Chicken folk-- This is a long and multipurpose message: first and most importantly, I want to check my understanding of how to use the posix I/O interface. But also, since this is a recurring issue that always bothers me, I did some experiments, some of which revealed behavior that seems a

[Chicken-users] Basic FFI Principle in Chicken

2013-09-05 Thread Chris Mueller
Hi, i've currently started experimenting with the FFI interface provided by the chicken compiler and have some principle questions about its common usage. Assume the given C Code: struct color { int red; int green; int blue; int alpha; }; struct color* alloc_new_color(int red, int

Re: [Chicken-users] Questions/nitpicks about Posix I/O

2013-09-05 Thread Evan Hanson
On 06/09/13 16:48, Matt Gushee wrote: I need to open an output file in append mode. Since none of the high-level I/O functions appear to allow this, it seems I need to use the posix library. Without digging any further, I'd point out that `with-output-to-file` et al. also accept #:append (as