Re: [Chicken-users] example from rpc egg crashes at around 2k calls for me ....

2015-12-07 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:38:33PM -0700, Matt Welland wrote: > I don't understand why this is crashing. I'm guessing I'm failing to close > a connection or finalize something. I also saw the same problem when I used > sqlite3 instead of sql-de-lite. Any help or suggestions of where to look >

[Chicken-users] Why define-constant is not a constant?

2015-12-07 Thread Joe Python
I was expecting the identifier 'test1' to not change by using the define-constant form. However i was still able to redefine test1? How to tell the chicken compiler to declare test1 to be a constant for real? CHICKEN (c) 2008-2015, The CHICKEN Team (c) 2000-2007, Felix

Re: [Chicken-users] Why define-constant is not a constant?

2015-12-07 Thread Evan Hanson
Hi Joe, That's not really what `define-constant` is for. Here, "constant" means "constant value", not "lexical identifier that can't be changed". Even so, the compiler does happen to do what you're expecting (as opposed to the interpreter, where `define-constant` is equivalent to `define`):

Re: [Chicken-users] ICFP 2016 Call for Papers

2015-12-07 Thread Lindsey Kuper
[My apologies for the garbled text in a previous version of this email. -- Lindsey] ICFP 2016 The 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming http://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2016 Call for Papers

[Chicken-users] optional type checking

2015-12-07 Thread Joe Python
Does chicken have optional type checking? A example and pointers to documentation would be nice. Thank you, Jo ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] optional type checking

2015-12-07 Thread John Cowan
Joe Python scripsit: > Does chicken have optional type checking? Yes, but only in compiled code. The interpreter ignores all type declarations and makes no type-checks except at run time. > A example and pointers to documentation would be nice. http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Types is the

[Chicken-users] example from rpc egg crashes at around 2k calls for me ....

2015-12-07 Thread Matt Welland
I don't understand why this is crashing. I'm guessing I'm failing to close a connection or finalize something. I also saw the same problem when I used sqlite3 instead of sql-de-lite. Any help or suggestions of where to look would be appreciated. The code (based on the sqlite3 example from the rpc