Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-22 Thread Felix
[BTW my understanding of the module system is a bit vague, but I've seen that the docs say something like modules are purely a syntactic construct ... so am I right in thinking that means that modules really don't exist at runtime ... and thus, if conditional imports were possible at

Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-20 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Hi Daniel, On Jan 18 2013, Daniel Leslie wrote: A little off-topic for this list, but it comes up now and then so I'll dive into it. Every time Askemos comes up I get a deep curiousity that has me exclaiming What is this thing?! Especially after perusing pages like this one

Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-20 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
sorry to follow up to my own post on off-topic (except for being a chicken use case) I forgot to add a link I wanted to give for those interested in more detail. Here is a slightly modified snapshot (CSS removed and front page changed) I took these days from the application serving the

Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-20 Thread Matt Gushee
Just a quick update-- I am gradually working out the practical issues affecting my project (think I'm going to go OO for the database layer and any other core components that need to be interchangeable. I am still wondering about a couple of points I mentioned: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:44 PM,

Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-18 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Hi Matt, I know you've been asking quite a different question. But judging from your aimsgoals, maybe it's worth to look at ball.askemos.org ; runs on chicken and rscheme. (see http://ball.askemos.org/DevelopmentNetwork ) It might save you quite some work and bring in at least one more

Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-18 Thread Daniel Leslie
A little off-topic for this list, but it comes up now and then so I'll dive into it. Every time Askemos comes up I get a deep curiousity that has me exclaiming What is this thing?! Especially after perusing pages like this one http://www.askemos.org/index.html/?_v=footnote_id=1223. What's the

Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-17 Thread Matt Gushee
Hi, Felix-- Thanks for your reply. I have some clarifications and responses below ... On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Felix fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org wrote: I am developing a project which I expect will involve a number of extension libraries, or plugins (a large number,

Re: [Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-15 Thread Felix
I am developing a project which I expect will involve a number of extension libraries, or plugins (a large number, many of them provided by third parties, if my project ever becomes popular). For several reasons (which I will explain on request if anyone is curious), I feel it is best *not* to

[Chicken-users] Some questions about loading libraries

2013-01-13 Thread Matt Gushee
Hi, all-- I am developing a project which I expect will involve a number of extension libraries, or plugins (a large number, many of them provided by third parties, if my project ever becomes popular). For several reasons (which I will explain on request if anyone is curious), I feel it is best