Re: [Chicken-users] Porting modules to Chicken from other Schemes?

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:09:22PM +0900, Ivan Raikov wrote: > > Hello, > >It depends on whether the module uses features specific to the other > Scheme implementation. I find that the biggest impediments to porting to > Chicken are non-hygienic macros, object oriented systems (often > implem

[Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

Hi all, I've noticed that some of the wiki pages have an h2 title at the top, some don't. For the ones that have have a table of contents, some have an h2 above the toc, some have it below. I think pages look a bit odd if they have no title at the very top. Looking at the source for a few pages,

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:56:59PM -0400, John Gabriele wrote: > Hi all, > > I've noticed that some of the wiki pages have an h2 title at the top, > some don't. For the ones that have have a table of contents, some have > an h2 above the toc, some have it below. Yeah, this is up to each individua

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Peter Bex wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:56:59PM -0400, John Gabriele wrote: > >> I think it would make sense for every page to have an h1 ("= Page >> Title") at the top, which would not be part of a toc (if present), >> which would be rendered at the top of t

Re: [Chicken-users] types.db incorrect

On Sep 8 2011, Felix wrote: Unfortunately this situation paralyses me. I too much depend on it. Does it work with specialization turned off? (-O2 only) Dunno. I went into punch-the-head-through-the-wall mode. Got the problem fixed. It turned out to be a abuse of code never intended to be u

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM, John Gabriele wrote: > {...} > I think it would make sense for every page to have an h1 ("= Page > Title") at the top, which would not be part of a toc (if present), > which would be rendered at the top of the page body (above the toc, if > present), and which wou

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 01:42:51PM -0400, John Gabriele wrote: > I don't understand what you mean. I'd expect this wiki markup: > > > = Title Goes Here > > [[toc:]] > > == Intro > > Some content here. > > > to produce something like: > > > > Title Goes Here - The Chicken Schem

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:29:13PM -0400, John Gabriele wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM, John Gabriele wrote: > > {...} > > I think it would make sense for every page to have an h1 ("= Page > > Title") at the top, which would not be part of a toc (if present), > > which would be rendered

[Chicken-users] New project

Although I have programmed for decades, I am new to Scheme.  I thought that I would use a project I've been contemplating as a help in learning the language. There is a website of scriptures which I wish to download.  Some of the webpages, of course, are indices into books and then chapters.  So

Re: [Chicken-users] New project

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 01:02:05PM -0700, Steve Graham wrote: > Although I have programmed for decades, I am new to Scheme.  I thought that I > would use a project I've been contemplating as a help in learning the > language. > > There is a website of scriptures which I wish to download.  Some o

Re: [Chicken-users] New project

I did a simple screen-scraping exerciseat my blog, based on an earlier set of input combinators. You migh

Re: [Chicken-users] New project

Steve Graham scripsit: > I would appreciate any hints as to how to do this.  I'm thinking I > would need some pointers with downloading web pages, stripping HTML > and saving to a database. This is a rather large for a first project. I'd consider delegating the recursive download to the wget com

Re: [Chicken-users] types.db incorrect

> The whole network is on average (computing their byzantine > agreement on transactions) 50% faster than before > (when only the ARM ran with chicken). > > And it's running on approximately 50% of memory. > > I guess it's time to prepare a first release eventually. > > Thanks for all your preci

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

Hi John, On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:56 AM, John Gabriele wrote: > I've noticed that some of the wiki pages have an h2 title at the top, > some don't. For the ones that have have a table of contents, some have > an h2 above the toc, some have it below. > > I think pages look a bit odd if they have no

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Peter Bex wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:29:13PM -0400, John Gabriele wrote: > >> which might be acceptable, and wouldn't require any work, but I don't >> think it's optimal. > > I don't really understand what you want; {...} What I want (what I think would b

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:46:01PM -0400, John Gabriele wrote: > What I want (what I think would benefit the wiki) is this: > > http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/temp/eggs-tutorial-2.html > > instead of this: > > http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/temp/eggs-tutorial.html > > The stopgap measur

Re: [Chicken-users] wiki pages and h1 title

On Sep 10, 2011, at 5:46 PM, John Gabriele wrote: > The stopgap measure though, would appear to be this: > > https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs%20tutorial (I just now added the h2 > heading to it.) I think this looks reasonable ___ Chicken-users mailing lis

[Chicken-users] MacPorts and Chicken

Hi, Trying to use Chicken for the first time and having some install issues on Snow leopard (10.6.8). Followed the wiki macport instructions - " sudo port install chicken" The output is ---> Fetching archive for chicken ---> Attempting to fetch chicken-4.4.0_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http:

Re: [Chicken-users] New project

On Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:02:05 PM Steve Graham wrote: > Although I have programmed for decades, I am new to Scheme. I thought that > I would use a project I've been contemplating as a help in learning the > language. > > There is a website of scriptures which I wish to download. Some o

[Chicken-users] MacPorts and Chicken

Hi, Trying to use Chicken for the first time and having some install issues on Snow leopard (10.6.8). Followed the wiki macport instructions - " sudo port install chicken" The output is ---> Fetching archive for chicken ---> Attempting to fetch chicken-4.4.0_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http:

Re: [Chicken-users] MacPorts and Chicken

Hi Jimmy, On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:28:58 +0100 Jimmy Coyne wrote: > Trying to use Chicken for the first time and having some install issues > on Snow > leopard (10.6.8). > > Followed the wiki macport instructions  - " sudo port install chicken" > > The output is  > > --->  Fetching archive for ch

Re: [Chicken-users] MacPorts and Chicken

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:41:50PM -0400, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: [snip] > Anyway, 4.4.0 is a quite old release. If possible, please consider > using the latest release (4.7.0). You can get it at > http://code.call-cc.org. [snip] Six months ago I submitted a patch to update the Mac

Re: [Chicken-users] MacPorts and Chicken

On Sep 10, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Jimmy Coyne wrote: > Hi, > Trying to use Chicken for the first time and having some install issues on > Snow leopard (10.6.8). > > Followed the wiki macport instructions - " sudo port install chicken" > ---> Attempting to fetch chicken-4.4.0_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz