Re: [Chicken-users] Hello! I'm new and need some pointers please ~

2015-12-03 Thread fedekun
Thanks everyone! It helped me quite a lot :) Cheers! On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 at 21:06 Evan Hanson wrote: > Hi Federico, and welcome. > > Stylistically, a cond expression like this[1] can be more clearly > written as a case (http://api.call-cc.org/doc/scheme/case). > > Similarly,

Re: [Chicken-users] Hello! I'm new and need some pointers please ~

2015-12-01 Thread Evan Hanson
Hi Federico, and welcome. Stylistically, a cond expression like this[1] can be more clearly written as a case (http://api.call-cc.org/doc/scheme/case). Similarly, this[2] can be rewritten as a case if you make `string-head` return characters rather than strings of length one. This will also be

Re: [Chicken-users] Hello! I'm new and need some pointers please ~

2015-11-29 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi Federico! > Hello there! I'm Federico, a.k.a gosukiwi. > > I'm a wen developer (JS, Ruby, PHP, etc) wanting to learn > Scheme/Lisp/functional programming. My first lisp dialect is CHICKEN. Welcome! > I decided to make a simple project using Scheme so I can get the hang of > it. I didn't

Re: [Chicken-users] Hello! I'm new and need some pointers please ~

2015-11-29 Thread Kristian Lein-Mathisen
Hi Federico and welcome to the CHICKEN community! I've just got a small note on your build setup. Most CHICKEN projects use a .setup-file and then build with chicken-install. There should be a thousand examples of setup-files (here's

[Chicken-users] Hello! I'm new and need some pointers please ~

2015-11-28 Thread fedekun
Hello there! I'm Federico, a.k.a gosukiwi. I'm a wen developer (JS, Ruby, PHP, etc) wanting to learn Scheme/Lisp/functional programming. My first lisp dialect is CHICKEN. I decided to make a simple project using Scheme so I can get the hang of it. I didn't use anything "crazy" like macros, just

Re: [Chicken-users] Hello! I'm new and need some pointers please ~

2015-11-28 Thread Matt Gushee
Welcome to Chicken! On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:11 PM, fedekun wrote: > Also, I have one question: What's a good site for CHICKEN Scheme reference? > http://api.call-cc.org/doc/ is the canonical documentation site. You can also set up your local doc server (which will