[Chicken-users] CHICKEN @ 30C3

2013-12-04 Thread Christian Kellermann
Hi all! I am late to announce that there will be a presence of CHICKEN and other / scheme and lisp enthusiasts at this year's chaos communication congress in Hamburg, Germany. The event takes place from 27th-30th December at the Hamburg Congress Center. See the Congress Wiki

[Chicken-users] Problem with read-line

2013-12-04 Thread Dan Wilckens
Hi, I built Chicken 4.8.0.5 from source on the mingw-msys platform (under windows vista). After attempting to port and debug a program I wrote originally for Gambit scheme it seems that I've run into an issue with the read-line command. Specifically, if I type (display read-line) in the

Re: [Chicken-users] Problem with read-line

2013-12-04 Thread Evan Hanson
Hi Dan, `read-line` is provided by the extras unit, which is implicitly available in csi but not so in compiled code. To load it, try adding a (use extras) to your program. (Obviously, also let us know if this doesn't work.) Cheers, Evan ___

Re: [Chicken-users] Problem with read-line

2013-12-04 Thread Matt Gushee
Hi, Dan-- I believe you need to add (use extras) to your code. It's not a bug, but rather a peculiarity of the Chicken implementation: most of the libraries that come with the distribution (I think it's everything that is not standard R5RS, or in the 'library' unit) need to be specifically

Re: [Chicken-users] Problem with read-line

2013-12-04 Thread John Cowan
Matt Gushee scripsit: It's not a bug, but rather a peculiarity of the Chicken implementation: most of the libraries that come with the distribution (I think it's everything that is not standard R5RS, or in the 'library' unit) need to be specifically included in compiled code but not in the