Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-31 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, > What tends to happen is that people that want to do this consider > themselves Scheme programmers, first and foremost, and who do not > identify themselves with one Scheme system; so they release their code > on their own site, with info on using it with various systems, and send > mails

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Noah, On Sun 30 Jan 2011 17:08, Noah Lavine writes: > My question is, what should I do to let other Scheme variants know > this is happening and get them involved? C.L.S, currently. It could be that there is a need for another forum, but I don't know. What tends to happen is that people th

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 30 Jan 2011 16:48, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > The “R7RS” lists are accessible read-only via Gmane: > > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.reports I believe this one is available for anyone to post on. The other two are moderated. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, >> I think several Schemes already have a dynamic FFI with a C parser. >> Bigloo has one (info "(bigloo) Automatic extern clauses generation"), >> and it’s GPL’d code, which we could reuse.  Larceny has something too. > > Oh, great. Can Guile reuse GPL'd code, though, since it is LGPL? We cou

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, > I think several Schemes already have a dynamic FFI with a C parser. > Bigloo has one (info "(bigloo) Automatic extern clauses generation"), > and it’s GPL’d code, which we could reuse.  Larceny has something too. Oh, great. Can Guile reuse GPL'd code, though, since it is LGPL? I see that

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Noah, I think several Schemes already have a dynamic FFI with a C parser. Bigloo has one (info "(bigloo) Automatic extern clauses generation"), and it’s GPL’d code, which we could reuse. Larceny has something too. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello all, Thanks a lot for the points. Let me be more specific and see what you think of this idea, and if there is a good forum for dealing with it. I think that having a C parser will be a good feature for Guile, because it will let us make C FFI connection automatic by parsing C header files.

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Andy Wingo writes: > On Sat 29 Jan 2011 23:54, Hans Aberg writes: > >> On 29 Jan 2011, at 21:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I think there should be a mailing list for people who implement Schemes, to sort of coordinate our non-standard features. ... >> >>> I think comp.lang.scheme

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sat 29 Jan 2011 23:54, Hans Aberg writes: > On 29 Jan 2011, at 21:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> I think there should be a mailing list for people who implement >>> Schemes, to sort of coordinate our non-standard features. ... > >> I think comp.lang.scheme is already a good place for this.

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-30 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Noah Lavine () Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:23:39 -0500 a lot less coordination among Schemes right now than there should be Scheme is a fun platform for experimentation, which is sometimes at odds w/ coordination. Personally, i wouldn't sweat it overmuch.

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-29 Thread Hans Aberg
On 29 Jan 2011, at 21:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I think there should be a mailing list for people who implement Schemes, to sort of coordinate our non-standard features. ... I think comp.lang.scheme is already a good place for this. You quickly get feedback and many implementors seem to p

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-29 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, > I think comp.lang.scheme is already a good place for this.  You quickly > get feedback and many implementors seem to participate in it. Oh, great. I didn't know about that. Although I must say, it seems like there is a lot less coordination among Schemes right now than there should be.

Re: Scheme Implementers

2011-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Noah, Noah Lavine writes: > I think there should be a mailing list for people who implement > Schemes, to sort of coordinate our non-standard features. For > instance, you could email the list and say "hey, Guile is thinking of > adding a unicode library with this interface. Does anyone else

Scheme Implementers

2011-01-28 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello all, This is unusual as it is not really a Guile-specific message, but I was reading recently about the r7rs process and then about SRFIs, and I had an idea. I think there should be a mailing list for people who implement Schemes, to sort of coordinate our non-standard features. For instanc