Hi all,
I've been playing with Ruby on Rails recently. There are a lot of
good ideas rolled up into a handy package. But...
* It's written in Ruby, aka Smalltalk meets Perl.
* The user community -- don't get me started!
* It's not Scheme.
So I've been working on something called Pinkeye. It
Benedikt Rosenau said:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:28:44AM -0400, Ed Watkeys wrote:
>
> Mmm, eval at runtime. Is there no way to do this by lazy evaluation, i.e.
> promises (delay)?
Well here's my macro:
(define-macro (make-instance class . rest)
`(instantiate ,(eval class) ,@rest))
That eva
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, felix winkelmann wrote:
>
[...]
> Q3: What are you missing most desperately from Chicken, or better:
> if there is one thing that you really want it to have, what would that be?
my wish list.. :)
* Better error-messages/debugging support. Even using the debug module, I
fi
Hi,
I'm writing a program where I'd like to instantiate a Meroon object by
class name. Based on what I know about Meroon, it seems like the easiest
way is to to something like this:
(define (instantiate-object-by-class-name name)
(let ((make-instance
(eval (string->symbol
