Re: Question about how to check a symbol is bound

2023-06-28 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
and ssql->sql them at macro expansion time, which would be nice: if I follow that path I'll need to expand to code that calls a pure function on constant arguments at runtime. felix -- Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ OpenPGP_signature Descrip

Re: Question about how to check a symbol is bound

2023-06-28 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
time hash table? Alas, the requirement is that things like "foo" are part of the lexical environment - so can be imported from modules, renamed, be hidden inside local scopes, all that stuff! felix Thanks, -- Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) http://www.sne

Re: Question about how to check a symbol is bound

2023-06-28 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ho. PS: Hi everyone! I'm still alive! -- Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

I ported the combinators egg to chicken 5

2020-12-18 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
Hi there Kon, As I was porting something that needed it, I did a quick port of the combinators egg to C5... I did it with cond-expand so the same codebase works for C4 and C5 rather than making a new fork. Please find it attached - if you like it it's all yours, and I'll gladly add it to

Chicken 5 ports of pkbdf2 and md2

2020-12-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
lace, Alaric Snell-PymFrom dc512f953cf5cda5bb1de4af0960f4f93e391c57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alaric Snell-Pym Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 13:06:19 + Subject: Support Chicken 5 diff --git a/pbkdf2.egg b/pbkdf2.egg new file mode 100644 index 000..b0ff965 --- /dev/null +++ b/pbkdf2.egg @@

Re: Establishing Git repos for miscellaneous Chicken tools

2020-11-17 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
DO IT AND THEN BRING THEM CRASHING DOWN FROM WITHIN MUHAHAHAH, I reckon :-) -- Alaric Snell-Pym (2E0LOJ neé M7KIT) http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Chicken-users] I've gots an egg: missing.egg

2015-08-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Alexej Magura wrote: Hey, I've got a new egg that I'm working on: https://github.com/amagura/eggs/tree/master/staging/missing/trunk Excellent! May I offer some tips? 1+ and 1- duplicate add1 and sub1, which are already in the library:

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-hackers] Any thoughts on performance woes?

2015-04-08 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
... Dunno about the others but I, for one, have taken to murdering cute puppies for fun and profit. -arc. ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Chicken-users

[Chicken-users] Correct type declarations for (call-with-... thunk) procedures

2014-11-15 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
! Ta, ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] New egg: 2d-primitives

2014-10-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
hope some people can make use of it, Oooh, convex hulls and stuff, nifty! cheers, Richard ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Chicken-users] Using epsilon in test egg

2014-07-30 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-finish! ksw))) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Using epsilon in test egg

2014-07-26 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-users] new egg: nrepl

2014-05-21 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
the connection and abort), would be the next feature request for use in less trusted environments! Thanks! K. Good work that man, ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with the dollar egg.

2014-03-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
is that the stub module is written in C, rather than Python; while Chicken FFI stubs are written in whatever mix of Chicken and C you find convenient. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with the dollar egg.

2014-03-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
environment best suits your current activity... Might need some ugly mechanism to deal with module export/import interop, however! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-14 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
with Chicken, although I want to do more work on it before I release it - feel free to check out trunk at: https://www.kitten-technologies.co.uk/project/magic-pipes Evan ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Chicken-users] set! atomic?

2013-06-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ended up with a seemingly infinite list of elements inside a single hash-table bucket due to the chain being updated while being read, perhaps? It would certainly be easy to see it missing some or all of its elements, however. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] SPRING THING 2013 has ended.

2013-05-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
the other CHICKEN enthusiasts. I for one did enjoy it. When and where should we do the next? :-) There was some talk of Christian running CHICKEN DE 2013, wasn't there? If not, I could still rustle up another CHICKEN UK :-) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN

Re: [Chicken-users] The odd case of the channel egg's tests failures

2013-01-31 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
interesting facts. cheers, felix ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEKNQEACgkQRgz/WHNxCGrKQACeIpV1PdOLIh3wy5PXaJwQ2Zn1

Re: [Chicken-users] The odd case of the channel egg's tests failures

2013-01-31 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken and Cocos2Dx on Google Play!

2012-11-05 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
the truck over to the left and up a hill and back onto the slope that leads down to the start point! When I get a chance, I want to hook up the REPL and add more stuff to the world for her :-) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Chicken-users] Spiffy OpenSSL in compiled code

2012-10-04 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
be required for this spiffy case), and wrapping it in an autoload macro? http://api.call-cc.org/doc/autoload Or at least giving me the impetus to figure it out myself :-) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux

[Chicken-users] Chicken UK 2012 is this month :-D

2012-09-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
been warned... If anybody doesn't know where to come to, email me offlist and I'll give you the URL of our how to get here page - I just don't want it getting into search indexes! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] spock tests

2012-09-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 09/09/12 15:56, john saylor wrote: also, if the language turns out to be java, you should be worried- deeply worried ... It was saying something like Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Riastradh R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] Chicken at T-DOSE 2012

2012-08-08 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
foreign electrical needs, do say! I can probably arrange 48v DC at a pinch, and I can do 110v, but multiple phases might be difficult... Cheers, Peter ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] Chicken on Raspberry Pi

2012-08-06 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro/occidentalis-v0-dot-1 This would be a good basis for a Chicken egg to drive that seductive I/O port! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU

[Chicken-users] ANN: simple-graphics, a basic turtle graphics library for educational purposes

2012-07-08 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
with a draw-to alongside go-to, line thickness, etc. However, it'll do for now! Enjoy, ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo

[Chicken-users] Chicken UK 2012 is looming!

2012-06-20 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-users] Planned downtime for chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk

2012-03-17 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 03/17/12 14:48, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: I will be bringing apache up on the new server and checking that everything's working any moment now - then I'll send my notification email, and do the transfer. Well I *wanted* to send a final notification, but then I realised I'd already broken too

Re: [Chicken-users] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-03-07 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have now migrated the above email, and the results from the Doodle, into the wiki: http://wiki.call-cc.org/event/chicken-uk-2012 Please update the table with your requirements and needs if you're coming! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http

Re: [Chicken-users] Creating my own extensions

2012-03-06 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
it somewhere even more hidden-away and obviously not current? 3) Slapped a big warning banner on every /3/ page? ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [Chicken-users] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-03-04 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/2012 04:03 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: In the resulting flurry of last-minute sign-ups, the end of September is now looking more popular! I'll keep you all posted... OK, as promised (on IRC), I'm now finalising a date for CHICKEN UK

Re: [Chicken-users] foreign: Why is passing structs as arguments and return-types not supported?

2012-02-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
of stack or registers, or back again for returned values. But, indeed, it's easy to do that in C as your distim demonstration shows; return values are only slightly harder as you'll need to allocate a struct and copy the result in, then return that pointer. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http

Re: [Chicken-users] foreign: Why is passing structs as arguments and return-types not supported?

2012-02-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
neater, as it would then apply to users of foreign other than via chicken-bind, but it might be easier to do in chicken-bind! The last option looks ugly. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [Chicken-users] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-31 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2012 03:45 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Dear Chickeners, Having just moved into a much larger house than I previously lived in (one large enough to have an actual guest room, plus a playroom for the kids that we're equipping as a second

Re: [Chicken-users] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-31 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/2012 03:49 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: This is still provisional - I give you all until the end of Feb to argue me otherwise; after that I'll start ordering the extra leased lines and submitting requests for quotes to the local pizza

Re: [Chicken-users] CSI and CSC do not do the same for syntax definitions

2012-01-17 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
has compiled in a reference to y as a (initially unbound) variable in the hope that loading y.scm will assign a value to y. However, syntax definitions are not value assignments, as they are compile-time beasts! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-hackers] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
favourite dates online at the Doodle if you're interested in coming! I'd like to set a date soon so I can start planning the rest of my life around it ;-) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-hackers] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-04 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
in any shape or form, so that will hardly be a problem ;-) cheers, felix ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8EITsACgkQRgz

Re: [Chicken-users] Ugarit install problems and notes

2012-01-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
: command-line-arguments ugarit.scm:248: srfi-37#args-fold ugarit.scm:247: reverse ugarit.scm:260: with-input-from-file ugarit.scm:261: ugarit-core#open-archive -- And I'm looking into this :-) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP

[Chicken-users] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
in a few days in Gloucester amongst it all? Who would like to come, and when can they get time off? I'd recommend we make it a long weekend, so we can fit in a good mixture of hacking and adventuring! But people are welcome to stay for longer if there's interest :-) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-hackers] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-users] OT but of interest I think

2011-10-26 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
in the development of the Space Fountain, an idea that may one day make space travel widely affordable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain ...in frickin' Lisp-powered spacecraft, I hope ;-) MY OTHER CDR IS A TRANS-ORBITAL SHUTTLE etc. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk

Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] BerkeleyDB binding

2011-10-17 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
around! Ciao, Thomas ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6cAHEACgkQRgz/WHNxCGpmSACeKid8T71BrywaEq7SEgaexCdS

Re: [Chicken-users] [PATCH] Compatability between eggs and chicken releases: a report on progress, and a patch!

2011-10-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/2011 12:02 AM, Alan Post wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:05:55PM +0100, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: The user-agent strings it generates look like: chicken-install 4.7.0.3-st linux x86-64 Rather than the previous: chicken-install 4.5.0

Re: [Chicken-users] A proposal for egg category reassignment

2011-10-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
showing them as invalid! (I put them in crypto when it should have been crypt...) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6URK0ACgkQRgz

[Chicken-users] [PATCH] Compatability between eggs and chicken releases: a report on progress, and a patch!

2011-10-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
- 335 If anything, it looks like 4.2.0 is an important version to think about, too! The logfile goes back to about April 2009, though - I should probably work out the user agents by month to see what the trends are and to not be swayed by the state of affairs a year ago. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym

Re: [Chicken-users] A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

2011-10-06 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
... ...So far I've mainly been finding bugs in 4.5.0 so it's not running reliably yet, but once I get the basics going, I'm going to be building up a list of pkgsrc packages required to get them going, which might be a good start for FreeBSD ports! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk

Re: [Chicken-users] difference between ##sys#error and posix-error?

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
error message? I'm not sure at what points the scheduler is actually able to preempt. The solution, if that is a potential problem, is strerror_r, where you pass in your own string buffer. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Chicken-users] two minor tweaks to runtime.c

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-users] difference between ##sys#error and posix-error?

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2011 12:41 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: The core units are compiled without interrupt checking. There is no chicken thread switch coming in here. Oh, good. Stand down all units :-) ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell

Re: [Chicken-users] two minor tweaks to runtime.c

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2011 01:44 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: On Sep 29 2011, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: On 09/29/2011 12:38 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: I don't not have benchmarks for a reason: they would cost me too much time to do right. Personally I

Re: [Chicken-users] remove enable/disable interrupt flag

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
.) POSIX says that fork needs to produce only a single surviving POSIX thread in the child. Perhaps Chicken fork needs to do the same with Chicken threads. Chicken fork - no food jokes! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11

Re: [Chicken-users] remove enable/disable interrupt flag

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
permission to fork from all threads before doing so, so they can make sure they finish any operations on shared state in the parent, but that'll be complex, and a potential performance bottleneck, so probably not worth it! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN

Re: [Chicken-users] remove enable/disable interrupt flag

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
be in; neither do I know how they are implemented in Chicken! Perhaps they should encapsulate a copy of the dynamic environment in place when the signal handler was registered, as the most hygienic option... -Alan ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Chicken-users] two minor tweaks to runtime.c

2011-09-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2011 04:51 PM, John Cowan wrote: Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit: If the supposed performance improvement can't be benchmarked, then it's pointless, as nobody will actually benefit from it. Any case where somebody can benefit from

[Chicken-users] Updated README

2011-09-02 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
Now that the bootstrap binaries at code.call-cc.org/bootstrap are deprecated, and having stubbed my toe once too many times on building git versions of chicken, I'd like to suggest the attached patch to the build advice in README. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] Egg - Chicken version compatibility

2011-08-20 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
to replace my long-dead one, so I could probably set up a chroot to bring up a geriatric chicken in and test the eggs for salmonella. cheers, felix ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: [Chicken-users] Egg - Chicken version compatibility

2011-08-20 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
to replace my long-dead one, so I could probably set up a chroot to bring up a geriatric chicken in and test the eggs for salmonella. cheers, felix ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

[Chicken-users] Egg - Chicken version compatibility

2011-08-19 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
version conditionals! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5OYDEACgkQRgz/WHNxCGrKvQCgjmZJPhN7BWmA+XKRC6aHewdY

Re: [Chicken-users] Save the Gazette!

2011-03-05 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 02/28/11 14:36, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: So far, I've written my omelette recipe into SVN; and tools are gathering in the gazette-tools egg and on the wiki page at http://wiki.call-cc.org/gazette - hopefully this weekend I'll get a chance to integrate and test what we have, and we may even

Re: [Chicken-users] Save the Gazette!

2011-02-28 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-want-to-get-back-in-the-loop post... I'm glad to hear it ;-) Watch that wiki page and that egg in SVN, they're the rallying points; anything good that comes to me in email, gets pushed in those directions when I get a chance. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] awful as cgi or fcgi?

2011-02-20 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
simultaneous requests firing up two awfuls), if I can't start daemons at startup as I'm not root is an issue here... Best wishes. Mario ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] cvjm

2011-02-20 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
a sort of indirection class at worst, depending on how you've implemented the compiler. What made you do this, out of interest? Purely the thought it'd be cool, or was there some particular project in mind? ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] Save the Gazette!

2011-02-17 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
somebody even wrote a decent regex implementation for it ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] Save the Gazette!

2011-02-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
want to see the Gazette continue should be able to manage between them; if the above are done then, if needed, I'd be willing to pioneer alone with running them each week (or every other week at worst) and writing some content around them! So, volunteers please :-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http

Re: [Chicken-users] Save the Gazette!

2011-02-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
logs. * [[egg:ugarit|ugarit]] * [r12345] Added more bugs [[users:alaric-snell-pym|Alaric Snell-Pym]] * [r56789] Tagged 0.9 [[users:alaric-snell-pym|Alaric Snell-Pym]] I'd then look up the revision numbers if I needed to check out the background of a meaningless commit message, but largely

Re: [Chicken-users] Save the Gazette!

2011-02-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
implementations (I did X but Y is too hard) are a step in the right direction, and somebody else might do Y later, too :-) Every little helps! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] Save the Gazette!

2011-02-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
appearing in more than one place if the branches overlap. That's fine, the human can easily tidy up such niggles. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

[Chicken-users] Gazette issue 12

2010-11-15 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
- added a SRFI-17 setter to `list-ref' - control-characters in symbol-names are now properly escaped if the symbol is printed readably (thanks to Alaric Snell-Pym Blagrave for pointing this out) - added literal blob syntax (#{ ... }) - `delete-directory' now optionally deletes

Re: [Chicken-users] using mmap files as strings?

2010-11-02 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
might exist. Then have blobs, strings, srfi-4 vectors, and friends all have the option of being a reference to one of the above with an offset and limit, so they can be views into arbitrary data from external sources. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] More on Packaging eggs

2010-09-30 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
say now, as it *seems* to be working OK for Ugarit ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 09/13/10 10:03, Felix wrote: Oh, it already seems to take care of the module prefix. In that case, everything is fine, then. Sorry for the noise. Did you seriously think Alex might have done something WRONGLY? ;-) cheers, felix ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk

Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 09/11/10 12:41, Peter Bex wrote: Well, go ahead and add it :) (chicken-install already ignores unknown meta declarations) I am! I'm just suggesting it in case anybody else does the same thing, so they don't come up with a *different* tag ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell

Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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[Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
of if they are available. Whether chicken-install does something with this information one day is open to debate - my hunch would be to wait and see if any other eggs adopt this design pattern, and if so, decide then what would be a good approach. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk

[Chicken-users] Chicken Gazette - Issue 3

2010-09-10 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
However, in future, it would probably be a good idea if egg authors held off of releasing versions of their eggs that use features from development builds of Chicken! Alaric Snell-Pym (your faithful Gazette editor this week) suggested adding links to browse the source code and to discuss each egg

Re: [Chicken-users] A proposal for the egg index

2010-09-06 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
, and so on to than the egg page itself. Where's the tool that generates this page live, anyway? I'd guess somewhere under chicken-eggs/maintenance, but I can't find it. SPOOKY! :-) Cheers, Peter ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

[Chicken-users] A proposal for the egg index

2010-09-05 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
or some such, to encourage user feedback, feature requests, etc. Where's the tool that generates this page live, anyway? If there's interest in either of the above, I'm happy to propose a patch. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs

2010-09-02 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
by a version number. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs

2010-09-02 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
could be a no-op and install could do all the work, I think. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] new egg server at call-cc.org

2010-08-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
this will make chicken.kitten-tech more reliable in future... but more interestingly, maybe it will also make it easier for more people to run public mirrors so we can have more fallbacks ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] Egg request: banterpixra

2010-07-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 07/12/10 14:10, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: If it's of use to anybody else (I wrote it so I could draw syntax diagrams for the constructed language Lojban - see http://love.warhead.org.uk/~alaric/junk/lojban.svg for a more stressful workout of the layout engine), I'd like to put it in an egg

[Chicken-users] Egg request: banterpixra

2010-07-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
syntax diagrams for the constructed language Lojban - see http://love.warhead.org.uk/~alaric/junk/lojban.svg for a more stressful workout of the layout engine), I'd like to put it in an egg, please! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

[Chicken-users] Egg request: 4/aes

2010-01-05 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
Hello! I'm porting my old chicken3 aes egg to chicken4. Well, rather, I'm applying c-keen's patches to do same, and fixing a few things here and there. Please can I have a 4/aes egg dir in svn? There doesn't seem to be one yet! Thanks, ABS ___

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken core moved to git

2009-10-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 28 Oct 2009, at 11:46 am, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: git clone http://chicken.wiki.br/git/chicken-core.git Great news! For its flaws, I've found git a great improvement over SVN. But how's elf taking it?!?!? :-) Thanks all, ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell

Re: [Chicken-users] Wikipedia

2009-10-22 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
have expected that to be the case - but I'd only ever thought of using the loop identifier within the static and dynamic scope of the loop, as my brain is still steeped in lingering traces of C. Mmmm, beautiful delicious Scheme; how I wish I was using you in my day job. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym

Re: [Chicken-users] Does Chicken garbage collect unreferenced symbols?

2009-08-24 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
, I had a fear you were generating symbols with (eg) sequential numbers as names or something similarly meaningless, just to get a 'comparison token'. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives

Re: [Chicken-users] Does Chicken garbage collect unreferenced symbols?

2009-08-23 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
forever. Is that necessarily the best solution to your problem, though? Anything with an identity (a cons cell, for example) will work as a 'token' for a-list lookups? ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell

[Chicken-users] SRFI-12 exceptions: best practices

2009-06-18 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-configuration-error kind, even if it has no properties, just so that the source of the exception in a complex system with lots of libraries is known? Etc? If people could codify best practice here on the list, I'll happily write it up and submit a documentation patch :-) Thanks, ABS -- Alaric Snell

Re: [Chicken-users] Ann.: CHICKEN 4.0.0 released

2009-04-06 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 6 Apr 2009, at 1:10 am, Leonardo Valeri Manera wrote: Also: kitten-technologies? :3 Meow ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?author=4

Re: [Chicken-users] cons-wm

2009-03-14 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
DAMMIT so messing around with my own WM was always on the cards - and if I get around to that again one day, cons-wm will form a great foundation :-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?author=4

Re: [Chicken-users] efficient bytevector-ieee-double-native-ref

2009-02-17 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
) Then it'd be possible to make sub*vector/shared functions that just make a new vector referring to the same underlying blob, but having different start/length. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk

Re: [Chicken-users] optimizing mutually recursive loops

2009-02-17 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 16 Feb 2009, at 5:09 pm, Tobia Conforto wrote: Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Some would say that the matrix multiply should just be written in C and FFIed. In fact, most would just (use blas) or such. But I understand it was just an example. Well, yeah ;-) Concurrent Clean, a Haskell-like

Re: [Chicken-users] optimizing mutually recursive loops

2009-02-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-users] Cryptographic eggs

2009-02-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 11 Feb 2009, at 3:27 pm, Andreas Rottmann wrote: Peter Bex peter@xs4all.nl writes: On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:00:55PM +, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: VOTE! :-) I don't find S3 all that exciting, while SFTP is very nifty to have. So I vote for SFTP. +1 Cheers, Rotty SFTP

[Chicken-users] Re: GPG support?

2009-02-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
with basic ignore functionality, but I'll need to leave my options open for the more advanced stuff :-) Keep up the good work! ;-) Regards, Rotty ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?author=4

Re: [Chicken-users] Cryptographic eggs

2009-02-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 7 Feb 2009, at 2:13 am, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: But, first, I'm going to go and add encryption support to Ugarit, the goal of this egg-writing arc! DONE! In the process, I also made a new release of crypto-tools, that handled CBC with an embedded IV. As in, you provide an IV when

Re: [Chicken-users] Cryptographic eggs

2009-02-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 9 Feb 2009, at 12:40 pm, Peter Bex wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:00:55PM +, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: For S3, I'll need to implement the S3 protocol, which is mainly HTTP PUTs and GETs with special HTTP request headers for authenticating the requests. For some reason that daunts me

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