Re: [Chicken-users] Curious: why the name Chicken Scheme?

2010-08-12 Thread Kon Lovett
On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:43 AM, John Gabriele wrote: Hi, I looked around the wiki but did not see an answer to this. Just curious: why is it named Chicken Scheme? :) As I remember: Felix had (has?) a character figurine of the bad penguin from The Wrong Trousers, a Wallace Gromit adventure.

Re: [Chicken-users] sql-de-lite integrated SQLite3 library

2010-08-12 Thread Stephen Eilert
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Jim Ursetto zbignie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there. SQLite3 is a great, lightweight database, but I have hesitated to use it in Chicken applications because it's not guaranteed to be installed or recent enough on a user's machine -- especially if they're on

Re: [Chicken-users] new egg server at call-cc.org

2010-08-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 08/11/10 00:06, Felix wrote: The `chicken-install' program usually downloads from two different servers of which one is currently unavailable (galinha.ucpel.tche.br), so it may happen that the attempt to retrieve the extension times out, if the remaining egg server

[Chicken-users] Online documentation scan

2010-08-12 Thread Kon Lovett
I hate to complain about the ongoing refinement of web-hosted Chicken documentation but [procedure] (proper-list? x) - boolean should pop more. Suggest a point size constraint {description-text} {procedure text} {in-section-header-text} where {procedure text} is as above, keeping