Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-20 Thread john
Previously to Scheme I was playing with Ruby. One feature of Scheme that got me hooked was s-expressions. I still struggle to explain s-expressions verbally. There are continual debates about s-expressions vs XML vs xyz on the interweb. It would be cool to include an introduction to s-expressions

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-20 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi folks, On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:06:27 -0600 Mark Fredrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/cgi-bin/svnwiki/default/chicken-for-ruby-programmers Just a sidenote: this URL can be shortened to http://chicken.wiki.br/chicken-for-ruby-programmers Keep the good work! Best

[Chicken-users] Continuation Fest 2008

2008-02-20 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hi all, Are any Chicken Schemers thinking about attending the Continuation Fest in Tokyo that was just announced on comp.lang.scheme? I will probably be in the area that entire weekend, if anyone wants to have a Chicken meetup. -Ivan ___

Re: [Chicken-users] Continuation Fest 2008

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Shinn
Ivan == Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IvanAre any Chicken Schemers thinking about attending the Ivan Continuation Fest in Tokyo that was just announced on Ivan comp.lang.scheme? I will probably be in the area that entire Ivan weekend, if anyone wants to have a Chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] MSVC makefile (was Errors building eggs in mingw/msys)

2008-02-20 Thread Ashley
John Cowan wrote: All builds on Windows (cygwin, mingw, mingw/msys) have the same issue: Windows doesn't have a separate search path for DLLs, so all DLLs have to be on $PATH. However, the working directory is *always* on $PATH whether explicitly so or not. Actually, the problem turned out

Re: [Chicken-users] MSVC makefile (was Errors building eggs in mingw/msys)

2008-02-20 Thread felix winkelmann
On Feb 20, 2008 3:56 PM, Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to do some more work on it today. Right now uninstall doesn't work and it doesn't clean up properly in the main build or when using chicken-setup. Assuming people are interested, I'll post a patch later today. I'm

Re: [Chicken-users] MSVC makefile (was Errors building eggs in mingw/msys)

2008-02-20 Thread John Cowan
Ashley scripsit: Actually, the problem turned out to be my misunderstanding of the intent of the mingw-msys makefile. I assumed it was similar to the cygwin build, but I realize now that doesn't make much sense as mingw uses the microsoft runtime. So things like chicken-setup, which

Re: [Chicken-users] MSVC makefile (was Errors building eggs in mingw/msys)

2008-02-20 Thread Ashley
John Cowan wrote: Ashley scripsit: Actually, the problem turned out to be my misunderstanding of the intent of the mingw-msys makefile. I assumed it was similar to the cygwin build, but I realize now that doesn't make much sense as mingw uses the microsoft runtime. So things like

[Chicken-users] Playing with ideas for a chicken website

2008-02-20 Thread Ozzi
Just playing around with some ideas I had for a Chicken website, figured I might as well post them up and let everyone see what I wasted a couple of hours on tonight :-) Be warned, the javascript crashed Firefox here on OS X a few times. I built it in Safari, works fine there.

[Chicken-users] Stupid backquote/unquote question

2008-02-20 Thread Hans Nowak
This is more of a general Scheme question... Let's say I have the following definitions: #;1 (define magic 42) #;2 (define s '(foo bar ,magic)) Now I want to replace ,magic with its value. If I write this directly with backquote and unquote, it's easy and straightforward: #;3 `(foo bar

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-20 Thread Jim Ursetto
On 2/19/08, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright. I suppose I'll highlight the procedure name and make sure it gets typeset in monospaced font, as: [procedure] {{('''proc''' a b)}} I would like it if that line were wrapped in a div e.g. div class=definition.../div so that

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-20 Thread Jim Ursetto
On 2/19/08, Jim Ursetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: signature type=stringdoctype:xhtml-1.0-strict/signature Thinking about this a little more, it strikes me that definition or def is probably a better tag than signature. So: def type=stringdoctype:xhtml-1.0-strict/def for unusual definitions we

Re: [Chicken-users] Stupid backquote/unquote question

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Shinn
Hans Nowak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #;1 (define magic 42) #;2 (define s '(foo bar ,magic)) [...] The following doesn't work: #;4 `s s #;5 `,s (foo bar (unquote magic)) ...and I understand *why* they don't work, but I can't figure out how to take s and transform

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-20 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
On 2/19/08, Jim Ursetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: signature type=stringdoctype:xhtml-1.0-strict/signature Thinking about this a little more, it strikes me that definition or def is probably a better tag than signature. So: def type=stringdoctype:xhtml-1.0-strict/def for unusual

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-20 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
On 2/19/08, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright. I suppose I'll highlight the procedure name and make sure it gets typeset in monospaced font, as: [procedure] {{('''proc''' a b)}} I would like it if that line were wrapped in a div e.g. div class=definition.../div

Re: [Chicken-users] Playing with ideas for a chicken website

2008-02-20 Thread felix winkelmann
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Ozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just playing around with some ideas I had for a Chicken website, figured I might as well post them up and let everyone see what I wasted a couple of hours on tonight :-) Hey, the animated highlighting is nice! cheers, felix