Re: [Chicken-hackers] [patch] utils: qs not escaping pipes

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 06:00:17PM +0100, Michele La Monaca wrote: While backslash-escaping is equivalent to its corresponding quoting, the same is not true for caret-escaping. Depending on the context one is more appropriate than the other. AFAICT the general rule is to use double-quoting for

[Chicken-hackers] Taming the egg versioning wilderness

2013-02-25 Thread Moritz Heidkamp
Fellow Chickeneers, I just had the following problem (again): I tagged a new version of the lowdown egg (0.0.6). While doing so I realized that the previous tag (0.0.5) still installed itself as 0.0.4 via the install-extension invocation in its .setup file. This lead me to think over the whole

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Taming the egg versioning wilderness

2013-02-25 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi der gute Moritz, On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:51:22 +0100 Moritz Heidkamp mor...@twoticketsplease.de wrote: I just had the following problem (again): I tagged a new version of the lowdown egg (0.0.6). While doing so I realized that the previous tag (0.0.5) still installed itself as 0.0.4 via

[Chicken-hackers] Whishlist entry: macro expansion for type declarations.

2013-02-25 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Hi all, maybe that's not a wishlist entry, but just me missing somthing? When adding type declarations to some source, which has grown for over a decade, I ran into this situation: There's are widespread use cases of some types, which are actually implemented as vectors, pairs or lists with a

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Whishlist entry: macro expansion for type declarations.

2013-02-25 Thread megane
Hi, have you tried define-type: syntax(define-type NAME TYPE)/syntax Defines a type-abbreviation {{NAME}} that can be used in place of {{TYPE}}. Type-abbreviations defined inside a module are not visible outside of that module. ___ Chicken-hackers

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [patch] utils: qs not escaping pipes

2013-02-25 Thread Michele La Monaca
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Peter Bex peter@xs4all.nl wrote: Do you have a reference where we can read up on this caret escaping? I think you already provided one: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc723564.aspx If it's context-dependent it seems like it would be impossible