Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/29/06, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a small observation -- the propensity for long, complicated URL's isn't a win. Typing the full www.call/cc.org is a pain; the galinha site is also not something I can memorize, and the same goes for the united freaks site. You could always use

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
I now we're living in the age of delicious, but typing a good URL is always the fastest. No, local bookmarks don't cut it -- there's already too many of them. Maybe it's just me, but I'd love shorter, memorable URL's. Dan, I'm think if you buy us some shorter, memorable, domains, the admins

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
Now, I have absolutely no problem with this. There is just one catch: I don't want to maintain two versions of the manual, and we definitely need something that can be installed locally. Personally, I would suggest that we use http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/coop, since it's internal format can

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/29/06, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I have absolutely no problem with this. There is just one catch: I don't want to maintain two versions of the manual, and we definitely need something that can be installed locally. Personally, I would suggest that we use

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Kon Lovett
On May 29, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: I don't think it would make much of a difference, though (which is why I'm not buying them myself). call/cc would make a difference w/ search engines. How so? Lots of people searching call/cc instead of

Re: [Chicken-users] Question regarding length

2006-05-29 Thread Kon Lovett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 29, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote: Greetings, I sent this question to the list last week but it complained about me not being a subscriber. I'll assume it did not get through, so here it is again: Looking at the definition of

Re: [Chicken-users] Question regarding length

2006-05-29 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
What is the list length of (1 . 2) anyway? Only 1 makes sense. Hmm, I think throwing an error, —just like (length 'foo) does—, would make more sense than returning 1 for (length '(1 . 2)). Same goes for a circular list: throwing an error would make more sense than failing to return, the small

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
I don't think it would make much of a difference, though (which is why I'm not buying them myself). call/cc would make a difference w/ search engines. How so? Lots of people searching call/cc instead of call-with-current-continuation, is that what you mean? Yes. I believe that of all

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alex Shinn
At Mon, 29 May 2006 03:12:06 -0700 (PDT), Dan wrote: Just a small observation -- the propensity for long, complicated URL's isn't a win. Typing the full www.call/cc.org is a pain; the galinha site is also not something I can memorize, and the same goes for the united freaks site. I like