Re: Call for contributions to update the project list

2007-12-06 Thread Marco Maggi
If it is fine for you, I will submit a description for each component of GEE as soon as a new usable version becomes available. It makes sense for me because GEE version 0.4 is no more a single, all inclusive, package. http://gna.org/projects/gee";>GEE/Streams description An extension tha

Re: [announce] GEE/Streams 0.1

2007-12-06 Thread Marco Maggi
"Andy Wingo" wrote: >> Guile already comes with the (ice-9 streams) module, which >> allows Scheme level code to iterate over non--list sequences >> of values. GEE/Streams is a C language re-implementation of >> the same interface that allows both Scheme and C code to >> define streams. > >H

Re: the future of Guile

2007-12-06 Thread Marco Maggi
"Andy Wingo" wrote: >> 3b. Death to structs! > >Record types are the hip disjoint type in Schemeland, and >you certainly need a way to deal with them from >Guile. Structs might not be it, but you will need something >smarter than SMOBs... Suggestions? I dunno what you mean by "s

Re: Call for contributions to update the project list

2007-12-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Thien-Thi Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my stuff works w/ (unofficial) guile 1.4.x. > would it be welcome on that page? > > i suppose the deeper question is, do you think newcomers would > enjoy variety? (i would say yes, personally, from when i was a > newcomer, but maybe i'm just we

Re: the future of Guile

2007-12-06 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
2007/12/4, Marco Maggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that it is time for a chat on the future of Guile. Some pieces of input to the discussion: * There is (or should be) a module called "workbook" in the repository. It contains policy documents setting out the direction for Guile development.

Re: the future of Guile

2007-12-06 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
"Marco Maggi": 3b. Death to structs! IMO they were "an attempt", but the resulting code is awful (sorry, but can you disagree?). Err.. but aren't structs the main part of how GOOPS is implemented? IMO Guile's structs do nothing that cannot be done better with a good old C str

Re: Call for contributions to update the project list

2007-12-06 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) () Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:46:14 +0100 * to list only reasonably active projects, preferably projects that work with 1.8, so that the list is really helpful to newcomers; my stuff works w/ (unofficial) guile 1.4.x. would it be welcome on that