[Chicken-users] Seed thought: perl/ruby dbi equivalent for scheme/chicken?

2007-08-11 Thread Matthew Welland
First off, my heartfelt thanks to the mysql, sqlite(3) and postgresql egg authors. Without the sqlite3 and postgresql eggs I would be stuck on ruby or perl. Thank you! Perl, Ruby and Bigloo have available a single SQL interface for accessing SQL db's. It is called DBI in Perl and Ruby and the

[Chicken-users] location and c-string*

2007-08-11 Thread Zbigniew
Hi, just want to make sure this code is legal. I have a C function which allocates a string and returns it via one of its arguments, expecting the caller to free it. The following code works as expected, but I want to make sure it is valid. (let-location ((out c-string*)) (let ((rv (my-func

[Chicken-users] Native (pre-emptive) thread support

2007-08-11 Thread Blake McBride
Greetings, Given the popularity of multi-core computers these days, I believe real, pre-emptive, multi-thread capable languages are very and increasingly important. What would it take to get Chicken to support true, pre-emptive threads (presumable through some portable API such as

Re: [Chicken-users] Native (pre-emptive) thread support

2007-08-11 Thread Zbigniew
http://chicken.wiki.br/faq#Does%20CHICKEN%20support%20native%20threads? Short answer: use multiple processes or SRFI-18 threads instead. On 8/11/07, Blake McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would it take to get Chicken to support true, pre-emptive threads

Re: [Chicken-users] Seed thought: perl/ruby dbi equivalent for scheme/chicken?

2007-08-11 Thread Elf
it might be beneficial to review oleg's site... he has a lot of good stuff on db interfaces and abstraction in scheme. (and iirc, has one or more pure scheme relational db implementations available.) -elf On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Matthew Welland wrote: First off, my heartfelt thanks to the

Re: [Chicken-users] Seed thought: perl/ruby dbi equivalent for scheme/chicken?

2007-08-11 Thread Matthew Welland
Very helpful, thank you. Based on what I have learned from reading oleg's site I'm looking now at using the sql egg as a sort of dbi. Good enough for now I think. On Saturday 11 August 2007 09:11:17 pm Elf wrote: it might be beneficial to review oleg's site... he has a lot of good stuff on db