Re: [Chicken-users] current-time on 32-bit hardware

2010-07-29 Thread Nicolas Pelletier
From: Peter Bex Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] current-time on 32-bit hardware Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:01:26 +0200 On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Felix wrote: Peter Bex wrote: > > I'd suggest you use numbers but I don't think thread-sleep! accepts > > bignums. Felix replied: > That won't cha

Re: [Chicken-users] newbie questions about macros in modules

2010-07-29 Thread Imran Rafique
Felix, Thanks. Now that I think about it - wow! From a newbie question, to a patch from the language implementor himself - all in the matter of a week. Dizzying I applied the patch against vanilla 4.5.0, and it works perfectly. If anyone is using chicken-4.5.0 on gentoo, attached is a slight

Re: [Chicken-users] where is chicken-install?

2010-07-29 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Nick On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:58:41 +0100 Nick Keighley wrote: > The instructions for installing eggs involve invoking chicken-install. I can't > find this. I'm running on a windows system. What version of chicken do you have installed? Where did you install it? Best wishes. Mario -- http:

Re: [Chicken-users] where is chicken-install?

2010-07-29 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:58:41AM +0100, Nick Keighley wrote: > > > Hi, > > The instructions for installing eggs involve invoking chicken-install. I > can't find this. I'm running on a windows system. > Are you running Chicken 4? If you're running chicken 3 the program is called "chicken-

[Chicken-users] where is chicken-install?

2010-07-29 Thread Nick Keighley
Hi, The instructions for installing eggs involve invoking chicken-install. I can't find this. I'm running on a windows system. thanks, Nick Keighley _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013

Re: [Chicken-users] newbie questions about macros in modules

2010-07-29 Thread Felix
From: Imran Rafique Subject: [Chicken-users] newbie questions about macros in modules Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:46:39 -0700 > 2) module io defines a macro (debug-info) and a function (print-info). > debug-info calls print-info. If module io is imported without a prefix, then > it works. If module

Re: [Chicken-users] current-time on 32-bit hardware

2010-07-29 Thread Felix
From: Peter Bex Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] current-time on 32-bit hardware Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:01:26 +0200 > > That's why Felix couldn't reproduce it; I'm willing to bet he tried it > on 64 bits only. > This number cannot be represented as a fixnum on a 32 bit platform, > because it requ

Re: [Chicken-users] current-time on 32-bit hardware

2010-07-29 Thread Nicolas Pelletier
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Peter Bex wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:34:27PM +0900, Nicolas Pelletier wrote: >> >>     Warning (#): : (inexact->exact) inexact number >> >> cannot be represented as an exact\ >> >>      number: 1189553855. >> >> >> > >> > I can not reproduce this. On what

Re: [Chicken-users] current-time on 32-bit hardware

2010-07-29 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:34:27PM +0900, Nicolas Pelletier wrote: > >>     Warning (#): : (inexact->exact) inexact number > >> cannot be represented as an exact\ > >>      number: 1189553855. > >> > > > > I can not reproduce this. On what platform are you running this > > code? > > It is a 32-bit

Re: [Chicken-users] current-time on 32-bit hardware

2010-07-29 Thread Nicolas Pelletier
>>     Warning (#): : (inexact->exact) inexact number >> cannot be represented as an exact\ >>      number: 1189553855. >> > > I can not reproduce this. On what platform are you running this > code? It is a 32-bit Linux on a Pentium R. If my understanding is correct, the following call is subject