Re: [Chicken-users] updating eggs

2014-12-17 Thread Dan Leslie
Honestly, I just feed the output of chicken-status into chicken-install -reinstall -Dan On 14-12-16 11:44 PM, Alexej Magura wrote: Is there a way to update eggs? I thought it might be chicken-install -update-dbbut that seems to have a different effect. Is there no zero-config means of

Re: [Chicken-users] updating eggs

2014-12-17 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Alexej, On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:44:26 -0700 Alexej Magura agm2...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to update eggs? I thought it might be chicken-install - update-db but that seems to have a different effect. Is there no zero-config means of updating eggs aside from manually updating them?

[Chicken-users] Scheduled call-cc.org server maintenance

2014-12-17 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi, The call-cc.org server will undergo scheduled maintenance today, December 17th, at 16:00h EST. The expected downtime is 4 hours. During the maintenance time, the services provided by the following subdomains will be unavailable: * bugs.call-cc.org * code.call-cc.org * gazette.call-c.org *

[Chicken-users] Why there is no nil?

2014-12-17 Thread Bahman Movaqar
I'm curious to know why nil is not defined in CHICKEN and one has to use '() instead? TIA, PS: Or am I missing something ridiculously obvious!? -- Bahman Movaqar http://BahmanM.com - https://twitter.com/bahman__m https://github.com/bahmanm - https://gist.github.com/bahmanm PGP Key ID:

Re: [Chicken-users] Why there is no nil?

2014-12-17 Thread Christian Kellermann
* Bahman Movaqar bah...@bahmanm.com [141217 09:35]: I'm curious to know why nil is not defined in CHICKEN and one has to use '() instead? TIA, PS: Or am I missing something ridiculously obvious!? This is scheme not lisp. nil is not defined in R5RS scheme. And I think it is not defined in

Re: [Chicken-users] Why there is no nil?

2014-12-17 Thread Kristian Lein-Mathisen
Hi Bahman, I just thought I'd add that the only thing that evaluates to false in Scheme is #f. K. On Dec 17, 2014 9:42 AM, Christian Kellermann ck...@pestilenz.org wrote: * Bahman Movaqar bah...@bahmanm.com [141217 09:35]: I'm curious to know why nil is not defined in CHICKEN and one has to

Re: [Chicken-users] Why there is no nil?

2014-12-17 Thread Alex Stuart
It's remarkable how much energy in the standardization of Lisp dialects has been dissipated in arguments that are literally over nothing: Should nil be an ordinary name? Should the value of nil be a symbol? Should it be a list? Should it be a pair? In Scheme, nil is an ordinary name Other