Ephemerons, self-referentality in weak hashtables

2021-05-18 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Hello, I'm finally taking some time to port Goblins to Guile, in-between other tasks anyway. In Goblins there is a weak hashtable that maps current actor references to their current behavior. I found that for self-referential actors, I needed ephemerons for GC stuff to work right. In this old

Re: guile 3 update, halloween edition

2019-10-30 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Hi Andy, Wonderful update. I'll only comment on one thing. Andy Wingo writes: > Thoughts welcome! Also: should these structured error objects be named > exceptions or conditions? SRFI-35, R6RS, and R7RS say "conditions", but > racket and my heart say "exceptions"; wdyt? Exceptions, since

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-18 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Mark H Weaver writes: > [resending with fixed headers, for proper threading] > > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: >> I think *RMS's* action of unilaterally re-appointing Mark without >> notifying or asking the other maintainers > > Did you n

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-18 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: >>> Before the RMS/GNU/FSF conversation started, Mark Weaver left Guile, for >>> essentially unrelated reasons. He threatened to leave because he wished >>> to be consulted before I landed mixed definitions and

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-16 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
I agree with everything Andy and David have written, so I'm not sure how much to rehash here. I'm extremely saddened to see RMS pull this move. It seriously undermines faith for maintainers of GNU projects that ther is any semblance of fair governance, and that the rug can't be pulled out from

Re: Maintainership changes: many thanks to Mark!

2019-10-03 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Andy Wingo writes: > Hi all, > > After many years working on Guile and more than 5 years in a > maintainer role, Mark Weaver has decided to step down. Taking over > from him and remaining as Guile co-maintainers are Ludovic Courtès and > Andy Wingo. > > On behalf of myself and Ludovic and no

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > >> It was a great experience and joy for me to meet some of you at FOSDEM >> 2019. Thank you all! > > Thank you, too! > >> Now a piece of advice. >> >> Everyone who works with Guile knows that it's crap and look with envy at >> projects

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > >> It was a great experience and joy for me to meet some of you at FOSDEM >> 2019. Thank you all! > > Thank you, too! > >> Now a piece of advice. >> >> Everyone who works with Guile knows that it's crap and look with envy at >> projects

Re: Guile logo SVG

2019-02-04 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > >> I just realized that for whatever reason, you can't find the full Guile >> logo SVG on the website anywhere (which contains the logo in some >> convenient other forms), and that for whatever reason I had a co

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-24 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Manolis Ragkousis writes: > Hello everyone, > > It's that time of the year again we need to start organizing about > FOSDEM. We have a deadline for the 20th of September[1] to apply for a > devroom. We also need to start looking for a place for this year's > fringe event! > > I created a

Re: Guile 3 update, August edition

2018-08-24 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Andy Wingo writes: > In this particular example, the JITted code runs about 3x faster than > the interpreted code. The JIT doesn't do register allocation; not sure > precisely how to do that. A future topic. For the moment I want to > consolidate what we have and once it's all just magically

Re: Simple picture language

2018-03-26 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Hey Ricardo! Super cool that you were able to get this working so fast! :) I look forward to trying it when I get some spare cycles to breathe. Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guilers, > > I wrote a simple SVG-based picture language. To try it: > > wget https://elephly.net/downies/pict.scm >

Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils

2017-12-20 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > I'm sorry but I do not agree. Guile is not an

Re: Website translations with Haunt

2017-12-14 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > I want to ask for your thoughts on my new solution since translations > are probably important to many Haunt users. In particular, I believe > there was some discussion on Website translation on the Guile or Guix > lists as well. And not just important to