[Chicken-users] [ANN] test-new-egg 1.0.0 released

2019-07-26 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi, test-new-egg is a simple commmand line tool to test new CHICKEN eggs before they are added to the official repository of eggs. For more information, see [1]. The new release adds support for CHICKEN 5. See [2] for the release notes of this version. Note that the same changes apply to

[Chicken-users] [ANN] salmonella 3.0.0 released

2019-07-26 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi, Salmonella is a tool to test CHICKEN eggs. See [1] for more information. A new version, 3.0.0, has [finally] been released. The new version supports CHICKEN 5. The release notes for the new version are here: [2]. Note that the same changes apply to salmonella for CHICKEN 4 too (see [3]).

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-hackers] Allowing unspecified key arguments in functions

2019-07-26 Thread kooda
Amir Teymuri wrote: > I had a question about the objectives and reasons of allowing > un-specified key arguments in functions as soon as i want to have some > key arguments. Any DSSSL style arguments (#!rest, #!optional and #!key) always are optional arguments to the procedure. You can think of

[Chicken-users] Final call for draft papers for IFL 2019 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)

2019-07-26 Thread Jurriaan Hage
Hello, Please, find below the final call for draft papers for IFL 2019. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL

[Chicken-users] Allowing unspecified key arguments in functions

2019-07-26 Thread Amir Teymuri
I had a question about the objectives and reasons of allowing un-specified key arguments in functions as soon as i want to have some key arguments. Take a look at the following case: ;;; The function (define (foo a #!key b) (list a b)) Now passing any number of key arguments in addition to b