[Chicken-users] Problem OS X Snow Leopard installation/Compilation

2011-03-08 Thread Francis Lavoie
Hi, I had some problem installing chicken on my Macs(2) running Snow Leopard. I read the wiki/README and search the mailing list without finding anything that helps resolve the issue. After some reading and try and error, I found a solution. Maybe someone here can validate what I said and update

Re: [Chicken-users] Problem OS X Snow Leopard installation/Compilation

2011-03-08 Thread Jim Ursetto
Hi Francis, The readme instructions you refer to are only to be used for *universal* builds, which are not possible on snow leopard. Nor are they really desirable even on tiger or leopard unless you absolutely must support PPC and Intel in the same install. Simply build normally without specif

[Chicken-users] coops / override initialize-instance

2011-03-08 Thread John J Foerch
Hello, What is the recommended way to perform complex initialization of object instances in coops? Say I need to initialize a certain slot based on the values of other slots in the object. Is the initialize-instance generic designed in a way that it is safe to do something like this: (define-