Re: [Chicken-users] string-translate and utf-8

2008-11-08 Thread Sunnan *
Well; here's a transcript: CHICKEN (c)2008 The Chicken Team (c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann Version 3.2.7 - linux-unix-gnu-x86-64 [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables applyhook hostpcre ] compiled 2008-08-21 on debian (Linux) #;1 (string-translate i ö o_) Error: (string-translate) invalid

[Chicken-users] string-translate and utf-8

2008-11-02 Thread Sunnan
2008-08-21 on debian (Linux) Any ideas on how to fix this? Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Style Guide

2007-11-07 Thread Sunnan
Ivan Shmakov wrote: Sunnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (define (fib) (let loop ((a 1) (b 1)) (set! fib (lambda () (loop b (+ a b a)) This `set!' isn't necessary, compare: (define fib (let ((a 1) (b 1)) (lambda () (let ((saved a)) (set

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Style Guide

2007-11-06 Thread Sunnan
Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: For pure chicken code this maybe correct. But some Scheme implementations happen to treat the former form as a global variable, which can be set! later on, while the latter is beeing compiled into a static binding and set! on it will raise an error. Thanks for this

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Style Guide

2007-11-05 Thread Sunnan
sure. For no small part because the text editor I use (TextMate) doesn't highlight the first form as a function definition but does highlight the second form. The second form. Shorter is better. Always, always, always. Sunnan ___ Chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Eggology

2007-08-23 Thread Sunnan
is low-level, srfi-42 and miscmacros are control structures... This is part of what lisp is to me; layers upon layers of code. Of course, I'm not saying that dependencies are an end in itself; I'm just wondering if you or Benedikt have an alternative suggestion. Sunnan

Re: [Chicken-users] Eggology

2007-08-22 Thread Sunnan
Benedikt Rosenau wrote: Anyway, I propose the following: please keep dependencies between eggs small. I disagree; sometimes, it seems better to split common code to libraries than to have duplication. Dependencies can be hell, but so can duplication. Further, no mutual dependencies (A needs

Re: [Chicken-users] Eggology

2007-08-22 Thread Sunnan
Ivan Raikov wrote: Another solution would be to modify salmonella to construct a dependency graph for all eggs and issue a warning for each dependency cycle detected. That would detect the problems, but wouldn't really solve them. ___

Re: [Chicken-users] libffi and cmake on gnu/linux again

2007-07-16 Thread Sunnan
felix winkelmann wrote: BTW, in ccmake you can simply press e and continue. It should still be able to generate a makefile. OK. I was concerned that that would build a version of chicken without libffi support. Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing

Re: [Chicken-users] libffi and cmake on gnu/linux again

2007-07-16 Thread Sunnan
felix winkelmann wrote: It should be possible to modify the compiler- and linker flags in ccmake to use libffi. Thanks. ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] libffi and cmake on gnu/linux again

2007-07-13 Thread Sunnan
/share/doc /usr/include /usr/include/ffi.h /usr/include/ffitarget.h /usr/lib /usr/lib/libffi.a /usr/lib/libffi.la /usr/lib/libffi_pic.a /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/libffi.a /usr/lib64/libffi.la /usr/lib64/libffi_pic.a /usr/share/doc/libffi4-dev /usr/lib/libffi.so /usr/lib64/libffi.so Sunnan

Re: [Chicken-users] R6RS Rant

2007-06-05 Thread Sunnan
. Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Choosing chicken

2007-06-04 Thread Sunnan
as everybody me-too:s, but for me it's ease of use, good continuation performance, many extensions, great community (+ felix!) and good integration with C and Unix. Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken and stalin

2007-06-04 Thread Sunnan
bryan rasmussen wrote: Hi, I was wondering about integration between Chicken and Stalin, has anyone ever done anything to use the two together in any way? 1. Stalin reads sexps, chicken writes sexps (or vice versa) 2. Develop with a subset of chicken, deploy with stalin 3. Separate processes

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken and stalin

2007-06-04 Thread Sunnan
felix winkelmann wrote: A stalin-compat library? No problem. It wasn't so much a request as an example of what people can do. ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

(could be slightly OT) Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-06-01 Thread Sunnan
to *strictly* parse it. Not easy considering the amount of abuses of syntax people have put in over the years. (Using our h2-syntax to center images is one of the worst examples, but there are others, less extreme.) I do agree, though. Sunnan

Re: [Chicken-users] R6RS

2007-05-21 Thread Sunnan
On 5/18/07, Michael McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubiquitous Unicode support I tend to look at requiring Unicode support as analogous to requiring the full numeric tower -- really important for some applications, and I have no beef with Chicken's solutions to both of these problems.

[Chicken-users] string-split-fields

2006-03-25 Thread Sunnan
#:infix) Sunnan PS My tinyclos/syntax-case problem that I reported earlier remains unsolved. I'll download darcs chicken and see if it' still there. ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] import, the utf8 egg, syntax-case and tinyclos

2006-03-23 Thread Sunnan
defined differentlly for numbers, characters and strings. Works fine when I'm not requiring syntax-case. AML, Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] import, the utf8 egg, syntax-case and tinyclos

2006-03-22 Thread Sunnan
and syntax-case makes the program work fine for ascii clean data.) Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] stripping accents

2006-03-11 Thread Sunnan
, Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Question

2005-12-28 Thread Sunnan
On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 23:49 +0100, Benedikt Rosenau wrote: What made you try or choose Chicken in the first place? I liked that it was relatively easy to use C libraries. I prefer chicken over bigloo -- iirc, call-with-current-continuation is cheaper in chicken, too.

the point of REC , was (Re: [Chicken-users] Re: crazy behaviour in csi!)

2005-12-06 Thread Sunnan
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:54 +0100, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: Sunnan wrote: ;; instead of: (let f ((n (...))) (if (zero? n) 1 (* n (f (- n 1) ;; it's the exact same number of characters! Almost - note that REC returns the recursive function, so you need to return

[Chicken-users] crazy behaviour in csi!

2005-12-05 Thread Sunnan
://www.paulgraham.com/power.html help! years truely, sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] Packaging practices

2005-11-06 Thread sunnan
love to see example chicken projects, I'm especially interested in autoconf and automake usage but other solutions are also of interest. Sunnan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] an ode to Spiffy

2005-05-26 Thread Sunnan
Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure you've read what Paul Graham has to say after using Lisp (almost as nice as Scheme :-) for web applications in ViaWeb? He used CPS because full continuations weren't available; maybe Scheme could do it nicer. -- .i mi'e snan .i mi rodo roda