[Chicken-users] Re: mysql check connection

2009-06-18 Thread Daishi Kato
Hi everyone, Although, I enjoy the news about moving to chicken4, I'm still stick with chicken-3.2.0, mainly due to my heavy dependence to the http egg. Also, the mysql egg is one of my necesary eggs. Since nobody seems to be maintaining releases/3/mysql/trunk, (the latest code had even a

[Chicken-users] SRFI-12 exceptions: best practices

2009-06-18 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
Hello! I just fixed a bug in Ugarit that happened because I misused SRFI-12 exceptions. I'd just copied the usage I'd seen in other code, and wrote: (if (not (directory? base)) (signal (make-property-condition 'exn 'message The archive does not exist 'arguments base When I really

[Chicken-users] Re: Questions about modules

2009-06-18 Thread felix
Jack Trades jacktradespublic at gmail.com writes: A few more questions.  First I can't seem to get a 'list' macro to work when imported into the interpreter.This is a small sample of my 'list' macro, if you'd like to see the rest let me know. Hi! Prefixing syntax identifiers from base

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Questions about modules

2009-06-18 Thread Jack Trades
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:32 AM, felix bunny...@gmail.com wrote: Prefixing syntax identifiers from base modules apparently doesn't seem to work (I assume, because the base modules like scheme and chicken are put together by hand and have a special status) in the moment. Thanks for the info.

[Chicken-users] Wiki Syntax and Chicken for Python Programmers

2009-06-18 Thread Jack Trades
I've recently been working on the Chicken for Python Programmers document. It is now programatically generated so I'm wondering if there is anywhere to find the wiki syntax, so I can eventually output it in wiki format. I've re-organized the document and just about doubled its size. It's also

[Chicken-users] Wiki Syntax and Chicken for Python Programmers

2009-06-18 Thread Jack Trades
Sorry. I found the wiki syntax, it was right in front of my face the whole time. I did notice though that it says you can't use parameters in the table tags, which is kind of essential for the Chicken for Python Programmers document. Is this likely to change soon? Jack Trades

Re: [Chicken-users] Wiki Syntax and Chicken for Python Programmers

2009-06-18 Thread Jim Ursetto
2009/6/18 Jack Trades jacktradespub...@gmail.com:   I did notice though that it says you can't use parameters in the table tags, which is kind of essential for the Chicken for Python Programmers document.  Is this likely to change soon? No, but you can fudge it using nowiki. Why do you need

Re: [Chicken-users] Wiki Syntax and Chicken for Python Programmers

2009-06-18 Thread Jack Trades
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Jim Ursetto zbignie...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you need parameters? Unless I'm misunderstanding; to colorize cells and align text. It might seem trivial but the document is basically unreadable without these things, it's huge and finding your place is next to

Re: [Chicken-users] Wiki Syntax and Chicken for Python Programmers

2009-06-18 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:23:29PM -0400, Jack Trades wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Jim Ursetto zbignie...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you need parameters? Unless I'm misunderstanding; to colorize cells and align text. It might seem trivial but the document is basically

[Chicken-users] where can I find mysql egg?

2009-06-18 Thread Changying Li
Hi. I'm a newbie of chicken and using chicken 4.0.0. I got mysql eggs from: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/mysql.egg but failed to install it: chicken-install -t local -l file:///tmp/mysql.egg retrieving ... checking dependencies for `mysql' ... installing mysql: ...

Re: [Chicken-users] Wiki Syntax and Chicken for Python Programmers

2009-06-18 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Jack Tradesjacktradespub...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Jim Ursetto zbignie...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you need parameters? Unless I'm misunderstanding;  to colorize cells and align text. OK. Well, inserting direct HTML into the wiki is