Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic branch (progress report, sort of)

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On May 16, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Hans Bulfone wrote: my question is: will it still be possible to write a (er-) macro that creates new identifiers like define-record does? In most hygienic macro systems it's possible to "break" hygiene for the purposes of introducing identifiers. I don't believe

Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic branch (progress report, sort of)

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On May 14, 2008, at 10:52 AM, felix winkelmann wrote: It's silent in here So, let me use this moment to give some progress info on the state of the "hygienic" chicken that I'm currently working on. In As someone who has been searching for a Scheme to use I couldn't be happier to see this

Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic branch (progress report, sort of)

2008-05-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 16 May 2008, at 11:34 am, Hans Bulfone wrote: my question is: will it still be possible to write a (er-) macro that creates new identifiers like define-record does? from previous postings i got differing impressions. Yes, I think so. You expand to a form of the form "(begin (define foo ...

[Chicken-users] mysql check connection

2008-05-16 Thread Daishi Kato
Hi, I was wondering if there's a procedure like mysql-closed? because I'd like to know if a connection is alive or not. Hoping mysql-ping does the job, but giving me a segfault. Any workaround for this? Thanks, Daishi CHICKEN (c)2008 The Chicken Team (c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann Version 3.2

Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic branch (progress report, sort of)

2008-05-16 Thread Hans Bulfone
hi, On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:52:17PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: > It would be helpful if the chicken users and hackers take a moment > to consider whether this is acceptable and right, or whether we > should keep the current system, which is less scalable in terms of > modularity, but never