Re: [Chicken-users] TK eggs and unclear licensing status

2008-02-28 Thread felix winkelmann
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, While converting some more documentation to the wiki, I noticed something weird: * There's both a tk and a PS-tk egg. Neither of these is marked deprecated. * PS-tk seems to be a derivative of tk * PS-tk

[Chicken-users] bb egg in mingw-msys

2008-02-28 Thread Andrei Ivushkin
Hi all. I'm very interested in Scheme and CHICKEN but haven't write any program yet :)) I faced some trouble when installing bb egg in mingw-msys. There is no issues in Linux. But I like to be cross-platform in FLTK. First of all there is a bug (or typo) in csc.scm when specifying libs for

Re: [Chicken-users] TK eggs and unclear licensing status

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:05:56AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, While converting some more documentation to the wiki, I noticed something weird: * There's both a tk and a PS-tk egg. Neither of these

Re: [Chicken-users] http server example question

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:55:01AM +0100, minh thu wrote: Hi I'm trying to use spiffy. I've a little problem which is in fact related to the 'http' egg. Using the 'server example' from the 'http' wiki page with firefox, firefox try to load the page for ever; it's only when I kill the

Re: [Chicken-users] TK eggs and unclear licensing status

2008-02-28 Thread felix winkelmann
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the deprecation? Should the 'tk' egg be deprecated considering PS-tk is a continuation of that work? I don't know. AFAIK the APIs are slightly different, but I recall some users found PS-tk's an improvement. We

Re: [Chicken-users] Syntax of case expressions

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:04:23PM -0700, Matt Gushee wrote: Wait a minute, though. I understand now why (('a) ...) didn't match, but how is it that ('a ...) isn't a syntax error? Is it because 'a expands to (quote a), and is thus treated by case as a list of the symbols quote

Re: [Chicken-users] bb egg in mingw-msys

2008-02-28 Thread felix winkelmann
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Andrei Ivushkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm very interested in Scheme and CHICKEN but haven't write any program yet :)) I faced some trouble when installing bb egg in mingw-msys. There is no issues in Linux. But I like to be cross-platform in FLTK.

Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

2008-02-28 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
dbi:query-fold, dbi:query-map, query-for-each. I thought about implementing these, but I haven't been able to think of the use case that makes them necessary in the presence Scheme's fold, map, and for-each, other than as shorthand (which could be define'd in place in

Re: [Chicken-users] Vim syntax file for svnwiki

2008-02-28 Thread Elf
i have a mostly working set of mods for vim 7.0 for scheme syntax, if you want em... i dont know what the current version of vim is and if theyre back compat though. -elf On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Tobia Conforto wrote: I've also been working on the main Scheme syntax file, but that's a major

Re: [Chicken-users] Vim syntax file for svnwiki

2008-02-28 Thread Tobia Conforto
Elf wrote: i have a mostly working set of mods for vim 7.0 for scheme syntax, if you want em... i dont know what the current version of vim is and if theyre back compat though. Sure, post them here We should join our efforts and work on a single Vim script-set for Chicken! As for

Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI)

2008-02-28 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Ozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is (sql-null?) harder or less intuitive? It's not harder, but not being able to use null? to test for NULL is counterintuitive in my eyes. I know what you're saying. I guess I just like to keep my different types of nulls

Re: [Chicken-users] Unfair question: best Lisp for web development?

2008-02-28 Thread Graham Fawcett
Hi Daishi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Daishi Kato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Fawcett wrote: Sure. My first version was an SCGI server, but later I switched to HTTP. I usually host behind Apache, and moving from mod_scgi to mod_proxy was pretty straightforward, and in return

[Chicken-users] Re: postgresql: support for query parameters

2008-02-28 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:43 AM, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felix, I believe that Johannes is no longer maintaining the postgresql egg. I would be happy to maintain it if no one objects. Cool, that

Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:47:08AM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote: Yes, input port was what I was thinking. Thanks. The input port would return the body of the LOB and return #!eof when it's consumed. The Chicken blob or string options are redundant, so the revised proposal is to represent a

Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

2008-02-28 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:40 AM, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:23:37PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote: Can you even check for void? Afaik there's no VOID? procedure. You

Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

2008-02-28 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:47:08AM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote: Yes, input port was what I was thinking. Thanks. The input port would return the body of the LOB and return #!eof when it's consumed. The Chicken blob or

Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

2008-02-28 Thread Tobia Conforto
Alex Shinn wrote: the column info should be present once, not duplicated for every row. Since you may want to manage a huge number of rows in memory at once it makes sense to optimize for size. This could be a vector but it would probably be best to leave it unspecified and use an

Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI)

2008-02-28 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Tobia Conforto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Fawcett wrote: There does seem to be a good case for an immediate value that *can* be tested this way, though. John et. al. wouldn't have used (void) in eggs if there weren't. What about providing a