Re: Comments vs. commit log

2011-09-28 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 27 Sep 2011 22:43, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Would it be possible to move the explanations from the commit log to comments in the code? Looking at the above code, I have no idea what a var-table or a counter is, what it’s used for, etc. Sure. I forget sometimes, because

Re: GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.2-101-gd851e32

2011-09-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, (Though I think that the term ‘constant’, as used by GCC, is confusing. I don’t have a better name to propose, though.) How about 'algebraic'? As in functions in basic algebra. (I know it has a different meaning, though.) Hmm, I’m not convinced. Or alternatively, something referencing

Re: A Plan for Hacking

2011-09-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Noah,   - You write a function that assumes its arguments are of a certain type. You'd like to be sure this is true, so your program won't throw exceptions in the middle. That would be cool.  However, I suspect that for best results you’d want procedures to have type annotations, as in

Re: A Plan for Hacking

2011-09-28 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, I think it can be done effectively, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by dynamic module composition. Do you mean that this might prevent you from making modules that use arbitrary other modules? Or that it might not work if you loaded modules at runtime from the REPL? I was

guild hall, R7RS, and the name

2011-09-28 Thread John Gabriele
Hi, There's been some discussion recently at the scheme-reports ML about a distributed module repository. Would a guildhall be necessary if there were a central R7RS module repository (duplication of effort)? If so, what sort of interaction would there be (if any) between guildhall and an R7RS