Re: [Chicken-users] Building Chicken on OS X Lion

2012-09-13 Thread Hans Nowak
the modules.db file was read-only. Fixing the permissions on that file seems to have fixed the problem. -- Hans Nowak ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] Building Chicken on OS X Lion

2012-08-31 Thread Hans Nowak
am probably doing something wrong, or have the wrong version of something or another, but what? Any tips welcome. Thanks, -- Hans Nowak ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Building Chicken on OS X Lion

2012-08-31 Thread Hans Nowak
flag? Sorry for your troubles, let's get this sorted out. Thanks for your reply. The ARCH flag doesn't seem to make a difference, but I got things to work (sort of, maybe) using Homebrew; see my other message. -- Hans Nowak ___ Chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] tinyclos on windows

2010-12-25 Thread Hans Nowak
of Chicken, download the development version of that egg. Etc.) Maybe there is, but I am not aware of it? Or is there something else I am misunderstanding or doing wrong? Thanks, -- Hans Nowak ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http

Re: [Chicken-users] tinyclos on windows

2010-12-23 Thread Hans Nowak
the same error, using Chicken 4.6.0 on Mac OS X 10.5. Upon successive runs, the values I got were 1293120.171, 1293120.18, and 1293120.198. Because it goes up a bit every time, I wonder if it has anything to do with the conversion of a date/time value, or something similar. -- Hans Nowak

[Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-20 Thread Hans Nowak
, or, if that is too verbose, seq-length, etc...? -- Hans Nowak ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] ncurses [was: Re: Dumbass newbie questions. Sorry.]

2009-04-18 Thread Hans Nowak
Nicholas Indy Ray wrote: On 4/16/09, neil.bay...@gmail.com neil.bay...@gmail.com wrote: First question: For various reasons, I can't switch to chicken 4 any time soon. But I can't find the eggs for 3.4 etc. Where are they? Chicken-setup will download the chicken eggs, the ref is here:

[Chicken-users] Re: Optional Parameters

2008-03-31 Thread Hans Nowak
William Ramsay wrote: Does Scheme (and especially Chicken Scheme) offer a way to do optional and keyed procedure parameters? I wrote about this a while ago (from a Python perspective, but you'll get the idea): http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/13 --Hans

[Chicken-users] Re: google summer of code

2008-03-05 Thread Hans Nowak
Elf wrote: gtk bindings are almost done :) thats mostly copying gruntwork. suggestions: 1) chicken itself: adding flow analysis (ambitious students!) 2) spiffy: get spiffy to production quality. plugins for spiffy. 2a) Lots of examples for Spiffy, and instructions on how to set it up on

[Chicken-users] Re: regex and named subpatterns

2008-03-05 Thread Hans Nowak
Robin Lee Powell wrote: I've just looked through man perlre fairly carefully and found nothing like this at all. So I asked the Python regex documentation: Python adds an extension syntax to Perl's extension syntax. If the first character after the question mark is a P, you know

[Chicken-users] Spiffy/SSP question

2008-02-26 Thread Hans Nowak
Howdy y'all, I'm having a bit of trouble getting SSP to work. Most likely I am doing something wrong, I just don't know what exactly. :-) I have a file web/blah.ssp with this code from the Spiffy documentation: htmlbody ol?scheme (for-each (lambda (i) (printf li~S~% i)) (iota 5))?/ol br /

[Chicken-users] Stupid backquote/unquote question

2008-02-20 Thread Hans Nowak
This is more of a general Scheme question... Let's say I have the following definitions: #;1 (define magic 42) #;2 (define s '(foo bar ,magic)) Now I want to replace ,magic with its value. If I write this directly with backquote and unquote, it's easy and straightforward: #;3 `(foo bar

[Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

2008-02-16 Thread Hans Nowak
Mark Fredrickson wrote: With a high probibility that Chicken users will be coming from other PLs, I think a series of Chicken for Python Programmers, Chicken for Ruby Programmers, etc could be very helpful. Where are my hashes? How do I do string concatenation? Where are my objects? These

[Chicken-users] A few questions

2008-01-29 Thread Hans Nowak
Hi, I am studying Chicken this year (and blogging about it, as some people here already discovered :-). So far I have been able to figure out most things by myself (my experience with Scheme is limited, but I'm not a *complete* beginner), but I still have a few unanswered questions. Maybe

[Chicken-users] Re: A few questions

2008-01-29 Thread Hans Nowak
Kon Lovett wrote: On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Hans Nowak wrote: (get-docstring foo) docstring for foo Yes, but not with a documented interface. The procedure '(##sys#decorate-lambda proc pred decorator)' can create arbitrary decorations for a procedure. Then, '(##sys#lambda-decoration

[Chicken-users] Re: A few questions

2008-01-29 Thread Hans Nowak
First of all, thanks to everybody who replied. Re docstrings: My next question would be, is it possible to add them (e.g. as a library)? And would it be desirable to do so? Apparently it is already possible to write code like: (define (foo x) docstring for foo ...body...) It just has