Re: Why Ice-9?

2010-07-14 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com () Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:20:35 +0200 There are also submodule binders, in git guile, that can be used to implement this. Cool, i'll take a look at submodule binders. - Module name directory part (of aliases, of fully-resolved) must be non-empty?

Re: Why Ice-9?

2010-07-13 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 12 Jul 2010 10:07, Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org writes: () l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) () Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:07 +0200 ‘system’ may be more risky in that respect. ‘guile’ would have been a better choice, but I’m afraid it’s too late (in theory it isn’t, but...).

Re: Why Ice-9?

2010-07-12 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) () Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:07 +0200 ‘system’ may be more risky in that respect. ‘guile’ would have been a better choice, but I’m afraid it’s too late (in theory it isn’t, but...). Thoughts? Perhaps we can start discussing directory aliases, a feature

Re: Why Ice-9?

2010-07-09 Thread Andy Wingo
On Fri 09 Jul 2010 19:59, Noah Lavine noah.b.lav...@gmail.com writes: I am not completely sure this is the right place to ask this, but why do many of the module names in Guile start with 'ice-9'? I can tell you that as a newcomer this is quite unintuitive. Heh, I thought that too, once.

Re: Why Ice-9?

2010-07-09 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Fri 09 Jul 2010 19:59, Noah Lavine noah.b.lav...@gmail.com writes: I am not completely sure this is the right place to ask this, but why do many of the module names in Guile start with 'ice-9'? I can tell you that as a newcomer this is quite