Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-16 Thread Hugo Hörnquist
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:49:28PM +1000, William ML Leslie wrote: > I guess javascript is the exception to that rule, because Guile's > javascript is probably the closest thing to a conforming ES4 > implementation out there. Since when is that that the case? The manual page for ECMAScript (6.24.

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread Brett Gilio
William ML Leslie writes: It's already a thing. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Other-Languages.html There are some other user-supplied languages installable as packages, such as the delightful Wisp and guile-log Learn something new about the wonderful Guile, everyday.

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 14 Jul 2018, at 20:45, Matt Wette wrote: > > On 07/14/2018 09:22 AM, Hans Åberg wrote: >>> On 14 Jul 2018, at 15:53, William ML Leslie >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 14 July 2018 at 12:57, Brett Gilio >>> >>> wrote: >>> Is this possibility for making Guile multi-lingual a promised featu

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread Matt Wette
On 07/14/2018 09:22 AM, Hans Åberg wrote: On 14 Jul 2018, at 15:53, William ML Leslie wrote: On 14 July 2018 at 12:57, Brett Gilio wrote: Is this possibility for making Guile multi-lingual a promised feature, or more of a wishlist type thing? I'll have to think about some ways that might be

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 14 Jul 2018, at 15:53, William ML Leslie > wrote: > > On 14 July 2018 at 12:57, Brett Gilio wrote: >> Is this possibility for making Guile multi-lingual a promised feature, >> or more of a wishlist type thing? I'll have to think about some ways >> that might be good to approach this, bec

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread William ML Leslie
On 14 July 2018 at 12:57, Brett Gilio wrote: > Is this possibility for making Guile multi-lingual a promised feature, > or more of a wishlist type thing? I'll have to think about some ways > that might be good to approach this, because the limiting > volunteer-community is definitely going to be a

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread William ML Leslie
On 14 July 2018 at 12:53, Matt Wette wrote: > Hi All, > > I posed a question on #guile IRC last weekend asking for use cases for > making Guile > multi-lingual. The use case that came up was the desire to use Guile as an > extension > that supports multiple languages for users. To that end, I wo

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread Brett Gilio
Matt Wette writes: Hi All, I posed a question on #guile IRC last weekend asking for use cases for making Guile multi-lingual. The use case that came up was the desire to use Guile as an extension that supports multiple languages for users. To that end, I wonder how important it is to ma

Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 07:53:51PM -0700, Matt Wette wrote: > Hi All, > > I posed a question on #guile IRC last weekend asking for use cases > for making Guile [...] > as another option, rename with an extension monicker (e.g., javascriptx)? +1 for

multi-lingual guile: language strictness

2018-07-13 Thread Matt Wette
Hi All, I posed a question on #guile IRC last weekend asking for use cases for making Guile multi-lingual.  The use case that came up was the desire to use Guile as an extension that supports multiple languages for users.  To that end, I wonder how important it is to make these extension langu