[fonc] precise gc

2009-04-27 Thread Michael FIG
[Unlike John, I don't have a blog, so I'm going to send this to the list. I hope to help influence COLA's future, and so I'm posting things here as I learn them.] Hi, I noticed that both Church-State and the current COLAs depend on Boehm's libgc for conservative collection. I have long been

[fonc] Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) 2009 -- Call for Papers

2009-04-27 Thread Robert Hirschfeld
Dynamic Languages Symposium 2009 Co-located with OOPSLA 2009 (October 25-29) Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando, Florida http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/dls/dls-09/ * Call for papers * The 5th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at OOPSLA 2009 is a forum

[fonc] Re: precise gc

2009-04-27 Thread Michael FIG
Michael FIG mich...@fig.org writes: As usual, the state of things is at: http://michael.fig.org/figure.c Figure.sln and Figure.vcproj are also there for the VC++ enthusiasts (but not yet tested for this latest iteration). There is only dlopen to port to new platforms, everything else is

[fonc] State of idst and a questions about the object-function-dichotomy

2009-04-27 Thread Jakob Praher
Dear List, as a lurker on this list, and generally interested in the topic at hand, I am asking myself lately what are the next plans regarding idst. I am interested in seeing this project progress! Those who have worked extensively with idst I am asking whether it wouldn't be easier to directly

[fonc] State of idst and a questions about the object-function-dichotomy

2009-04-27 Thread Jakob Praher
Dear List, as a lurker on this list, and generally interested in the topic at hand, I am asking myself lately what are the next plans regarding idst. I am interested in seeing this project progress! Those who have worked extensively with idst I am asking whether it wouldn't be easier to

[fonc] string literals in quasiquotes

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Haupt
Hi, context: Jolt2! What I'd like to have is some way of allocating some space locally (on the stack). I thought this would work: ... (let ((space 12345678)) ...) ... And it does, but only until it appears in quasiquoted expressions. Quasiquote handling will turn such expressions into