Re: [Chicken-users] A Proposal for Texinfo Reference Manual, was: Re: Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-21 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/21/07, Adhi Hargo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: THE PROPOSAL: Important point first: I propose, in the long run, to spare the wiki for tutorials, introductions, cookbooks, FAQs, installation problem, or anything else any casual user could confidently contribute, and let the maintainer or at l

Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

2007-05-21 Thread Kon Lovett
On May 21, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: Hi Felix, On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:48:26 +0200 "felix winkelmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone try the newest darcs head (file-exists? just chops the trailing separator for the test). Works fine. Thanks a lot. Maybe th

[Chicken-users] A Proposal for Texinfo Reference Manual, was: Re: Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-21 Thread Adhi Hargo
THE PROPOSAL: Important point first: I propose, in the long run, to spare the wiki for tutorials, introductions, cookbooks, FAQs, installation problem, or anything else any casual user could confidently contribute, and let the maintainer or at least experienced programmers (a number of you, I supp

Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

2007-05-21 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Felix, On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:48:26 +0200 "felix winkelmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone try the newest darcs head (file-exists? just chops the > trailing separator for the test). Works fine. Thanks a lot. Maybe the same should be done to `directory?': On windows: (direct

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-21 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/19/07, Ivan Raikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mario, Do you care to elaborate why there is no easy way to do that? I will be very happy to contribute time and effort to building a wiki->texinfo converter. Ivan, I did some work on a wiki->texinfo converter (continuing Alejandro's ea

Re: [Chicken-users] busy-wait in tcp-connect

2007-05-21 Thread Dan Muresan
While we're on the topic, I find Chicken's lightweight-threads and srfi-18 compatible streams incredibly useful. However, it's a pity that only unit tcp (and the (process) function) can create such streams. For example, it would be nice if one could create pipes with the same property; or, mor

[Chicken-users] [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] Voter registration for R6RS opens; R5.93RS to be released on May 22.

2007-05-21 Thread Mitchell Wand
*** Voter Registration for R6RS Opens *** Voter registration for the R6RS Ratification process is now open. It will remain open until at least June 27, or two weeks after the Editors produce their final draft. The latter is now scheduled for June 30 (see below). Details of the registration proc

Re: [Chicken-users] R6RS

2007-05-21 Thread Sunnan
On 5/18/07, Michael McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ubiquitous Unicode support I tend to look at requiring Unicode support as analogous to requiring the full numeric tower -- really important for some applications, and I have no beef with Chicken's solutions to both of these problems. Li