Re: guile 3 update, halloween edition

2019-10-30 Thread Thompson, David
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 4:55 PM Andy Wingo wrote: > > 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? I think "exceptions" is a better name for the

Re: guile 3 update, halloween edition

2019-10-30 Thread Nala Ginrut
Hi Andy! Thanks for all the work! On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:55 AM Andy Wingo wrote: > Hey folks! > > I wanted to send out an update on Guile 3. Do take a look at > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/NEWS to see where we've > come; basically the JIT is done, and we're ready to

Re: guile 3 update, halloween edition

2019-10-30 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:13:49 +0100 Andy Wingo wrote: > 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? R6RS and R7RS speak of raising an exception, and handling the

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

guile 3 update, halloween edition

2019-10-30 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey folks! I wanted to send out an update on Guile 3. Do take a look at https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/NEWS to see where we've come; basically the JIT is done, and we're ready to release soonish. However! Here begins a long chain of yak-shaving: I wanted good benchmarks.

Re: Contributions to “Guile Studio”

2019-10-30 Thread spectrumgomas
Guile Studio is a great idea but If I had to make a wish it would be Mike Gran will continue to develop The Gano Project http://gano.sourceforge.net/ and from there someone would make some kind of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Turbo_C