Re: guile-gnome-0 - guile-1.6.8-6.3 - random crash

2010-04-09 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Andy Wingo () Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:13:10 +0200 > () Andy Wingo > () Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:53:17 +0200 > >what is the right thing to do here? Get it into a >project on savannah in git hosting, no? > > Sorry, i don't understand. What does "it" refer to? Referring

Re: guile-gnome-0 - guile-1.6.8-6.3 - random crash

2010-04-09 Thread Andy Wingo
On Fri 09 Apr 2010 09:08, Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > () Andy Wingo > () Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:13:10 +0200 > >> () Andy Wingo >> () Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:53:17 +0200 >> >>what is the right thing to do here? Get it into a >>project on savannah in git hosting, no? >> >

modifying pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Ludo, You added a change to foreign-set! for %null-pointer. Would it not make sense instead to make foreign pointers of type "void" unsettable? Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: Guile extensions

2010-04-09 Thread 0wl
Thanks :-) What you can do in scheme is making an actor language contruct with macros. See http://soft.vub.ac.be/~tjdhondt/POOL/HTM.dir/notes.htm I will probably upload this to monkey-mac. Love, tullarisc. 2010/4/9 Andy Wingo > Verily shall you walk in the light of the lambda until the end of

Re: modifying pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Andy Wingo writes: > You added a change to foreign-set! for %null-pointer. Would it not make > sense instead to make foreign pointers of type "void" unsettable? Not necessarily. See the test that was added: --8<---cut here---start->8--- (pass-if "fore

Re: modifying pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Fri 09 Apr 2010 18:30, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> You added a change to foreign-set! for %null-pointer. Would it not make >> sense instead to make foreign pointers of type "void" unsettable? > > Not necessarily. See the test that was added: > > (pa

Re: modifying pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andy Wingo writes: > On Fri 09 Apr 2010 18:30, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: >> >>> You added a change to foreign-set! for %null-pointer. Would it not make >>> sense instead to make foreign pointers of type "void" unsettable? >> >> Not necessarily. See t

Re: modifying pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi! On Fri 09 Apr 2010 21:46, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> I'm just wondering if it is valid to create a ((void*) 777) pointer. >> Under what condition is that useful? > [...] > It opens the door to all sorts of crazy things. :-) Cool :) FWIW, let's kick th