Re: makeinfo swallows page breaks

2013-03-22 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 21 Mar 2013 22:56, k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: Guile’s Texinfo parser Argh. The idea of a full second Texinfo parser in GNU is fundamentally wrong. I understand where you come from. For some context on why I wrote this parser back in 2004:

Re: [PATCH] Bindings for ‘sendfile’

2013-03-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: Since the code below will behave badly if 'c_count' does not fit in an 'ssize_t', we should validate here that it _does_ fit. Oops, indeed. (Note that sendfile(2) and write(2) have that problem: they take a

Re: Special variables to relax boxing

2013-03-22 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Hi list, Mark and Noah, Yesterday I noticed that the sematics for special variables are quite close to fluids and decied to see if I could model special variables ontop of that with-fluids semantics. That was pretty easy. The basic difference between fluid and special variables is that with

Re: Special variables to relax boxing

2013-03-22 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 23 March 2013 06:33, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: (define (f x) (let ((s 0)) (with-special-soft ((s 0)) (let lp ((i 0)) (cond ((= i 100) s) ((= i 50) (abort-to-prompt 'tag) (lp (+ i 1))) (else (set!

TeXInfo-related build failure

2013-03-22 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
Hello, list. I encountered following error, trying to build guile from git with `makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 5.1`. CCing to TexInfo list, maybe it is intresting. Making all in ref make[3]: Entering directory `/share/arch-illusionoflife/build/guile-git/src/guile-build/doc/ref'