GNU Guile 3.0.8 released

We are delighted to announce GNU Guile release 3.0.8, the latest in the 3.0 stable release series. The Guile 3.0.8 release mixes maintenance and optimizations that were landed since the previous 3.0.7 stable release in May 2021. See the NEWS extract at the end of the mail for full details.

Re: Ideas for making Guile easier to approach

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Leo Butler wrote: > It would be a pity to deprecate and/or remove that little bit of > culture for the sake of...OTOH, creating a workable system that > allowed one to dynamically alias modules would definitely be useful. The cultural reference can still be there in the

Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix

Hello, Le mercredi 09 février 2022 à 12:05 -0800, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué a écrit : > - The manual is written by very smart people for very smart people. > Not for > newcomers. To be more precise, I had that feeling everywhere I stumbled on the word "continuation" : it took me days or weeks to

Re: Proposal: Deep Dive into the Guile Docs & Makeover Proposal

Lol, wish I had seen this before I shot off my other email. This is great! Glad to see a lot of overlap between our emails.

Re: Ideas for making Guile easier to approach

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:34 PM Leo Butler wrote: > ...eventually resulting in the Emacsification of the entire GNU > system. Indeed, this is the reason for the naming of the many Guile > modules that live in the ‘ice-9’ namespace, a nod to the fictional > substance in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel,

Re: Ideas for making Guile easier to approach

Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > Den ons 9 feb. 2022 21:12Christine Lemmer-Webber > skrev: > >> >> ice-9 -> guile >> -- >> >> I think that ice-9 is a weird namespace for "guile's standard library" >> but it's what we have for historical reasons. My 2c: The guile reference manual is

Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix

Aleix Conchillo Flaqué writes: > My 2 cents: > > - Doing something in Guile is tough. I've been trying since 2011. > > Why is it tough? > > - The manual is written by very smart people for very smart people. Not for > newcomers. I've seen this sentiment expressed a few times when this topic

Re: Ideas for making Guile easier to approach

Den ons 9 feb. 2022 21:12Christine Lemmer-Webber skrev: > > ice-9 -> guile > -- > > I think that ice-9 is a weird namespace for "guile's standard library" > but it's what we have for historical reasons. Still I would have > preferred that namespace simply be "guile", so we have

Re: Ideas for making Guile easier to approach

Timothy Sample writes: > I remembered that the R7RS Large process was giving library names to > SRFIs, but it looks like many of them now have a “library name” field in > their metadata. For instance, see , > which says “library name: and-let*”.