On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Kyle R. Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I see that there is a Soundex that is part of slib, and that slib is > compatible with Chicken - but I couldn't figure out how to get it up > and running in my chicken instance. I saw referenced at one point > that there was an slib.egg, but I couldn't find it. I also saw that > there is an slib checked in on callcc.org's svn repository, but I > couldn't figure out how to get it. chicken-setup slib should work ok. The problem with slib is that it is inherentliy unsuited to work with batch-compilers. You can use it with the interpreter, though. > > After some motion and effort I gave up and just ported a Soundex > implementation from another language to Chicken. I haven't read > through how to create an egg out of it yet, but I figured I'd offer it > to the list in case someone wants to egg-ifiy it or lead me through > the process. > > The implementation is here: > > http://www.neverlight.com/~mortis/talks/fuzzy-string/src/chicken/ > > There are 2 .scm files of interest, soundex.scm, and fuzzy-lib.scm > (some support utils, I suspect some of which duplicate some of the > chicken standard library). > > I've also got a NYSIIS implementation there, and a C based text-brew > implementation with a Chicken wrapper near by: > > http://www.neverlight.com/~mortis/talks/fuzzy-string/textBrew/ > Well, why don't you make eggs from the stuff? I'd be delighted to add it to the repository and can give you commit rights, if you like. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
