Re: [Chicken-users] Bug with #!optional in Chicken 4.8.0

2012-10-18 Thread Felix
>> > Now I understand what you mean about parameter-like > procedures. Supporting them does indeed make the situation more > challenging. But, if we could somehow distinguish between real > parameters and parameter-like procedures, we could be sure to only > send the "bypass guard/conversion proced

Re: [Chicken-users] What is the purpose of module interfaces?

2012-10-18 Thread Felix
From: Matt Gushee Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] What is the purpose of module interfaces? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:36:02 -0600 > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Felix < > fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org> wrote: > > >> Would you perhaps like to help us with this by extending this manua

Re: [Chicken-users] What is the purpose of module interfaces?

2012-10-18 Thread Matt Gushee
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Felix < fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org> wrote: > Would you perhaps like to help us with this by extending this manual > section a little? You could take that queue example as a starting > point and explain things alongside the code. That would be nice, a

[Chicken-users] Receiving from multiple mailboxes

2012-10-18 Thread megane
Hi. I've been toying with the mailbox egg. AFAIK there's currently no way to wait messages from multiple mailboxes at the same time. Is there a reason this is not supported? I made a quick hack that seems to not break immediately. There's a new procedure `mailbox-receive-many!' that takes a list