From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add language/wisp to Guile?
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:36:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a61fjp6i.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01212259-37dd-5d67-7bbc-101e01d96d01@telenet.be>
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Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
>> [...]
>> That would be nice, but would require doing changes in a critical core
>> part of Guile. It would change this addition from a risk-free added
>> feature to a risky core change.
>
> I maintain that a new language shouldn't be merged until the
> Scheme-specific load path stuff is fixed/extended to work for
> non-Scheme things (e.g. Wisp) too -- if this requires somewhat risky
> (*) changes to core parts, then that just means we'll have to do some
> risky stuff, then.
>
> I also expect that Guile maintainers will have the opposite opinion
> (i.e., ‘fixing the load path stuff isn't necessary for merging a new
> language implementation’).
>
> (*) FWIW I disagree on the 'risky' assessment -- it seems like a ‘if
> it runs, it will work’ thing to me. That it modifies a core part of
> Guile, makes it less risky IMO, as it would automatically be more
> tested.
>
> Aside from the (*) and the 'I also expect [...],', I don't have
> anything new to say about this, so I'll stop here.
Thank you for your suggestions and contributions so far. They help me a
lot!
>> [...]
>> That would also enable shipping pre-compiled software without
>> sourcecode,
>
> That can already be done -- besides legalities, nothing stops people
> from putting [^] or [^] .scm files in $GUILE_LOAD_PATH and putting .go
> in $GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH.
>
> [^]: Redacted to not give people ideas on how to circumvent stuff.
> I can elaborate by non-public e-mail if you like.
Thank you! (for redacting) — I hope I’ll never need that :-)
> On 14-02-2023 22:24, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> PS: So what’s still missing here is to avoid setting the locale. Do you
>> happen to have a hint how to actually do this right?
>
> I think you might have forgotten about this:
>
>> -- Scheme Procedure: set-port-encoding! port enc
>> -- C Function: scm_set_port_encoding_x (port, enc)
>> Sets the character encoding that will be used to interpret I/O to
>> PORT. ENC is a string containing the name of an encoding. Valid
>> encoding names are those defined by IANA
>> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets), for example
>> ‘"UTF-8"’ or ‘"ISO-8859-1"’.
>> As such, I propose calling set-port-encoding! right in the beginning
>> of read-one-wisp-sexp.
Yikes, yes. I shouldn’t spend so much time thinking about implications
when I haven’t yet applied all the clear and uncontested improvements.
Thank you!
> More concretely, replace
>
> (define (read-one-wisp-sexp port env)
> ;; allow using "# foo" as #(foo).
> (read-hash-extend #\# (λ (chr port) #\#))
> (cond
> ((eof-object? (peek-char port))
> (read-char port )); return eof: we’re done
> (else
> (let ((chunk (wisp-scheme-read-chunk port)))
> (cond
> ((not (null? chunk))
> (car chunk))
> (else
> #f))))))
>
> by
>
> (define (read-one-wisp-sexp port env)
> ;; Allow using "# foo" as #(foo).
> ;; Don't use the globally-acting read-hash-extend, because this
> ;; doesn't make much sense in parenthese-y (non-Wisp) Scheme.
> ;; Instead, use fluids to temporarily add the extension.
> (define %read-hash-procedures/parameter
> (fluid->parameter %read-hash-procedures))
> (parameterize ((%read-hash-procedures/parameter
> `((#\# ,(λ (chr port) #\#))
> ,@(%read-hash-procedures/parameter))))
> ;; Read Wisp files as UTF-8, to support non-ASCII characters.
> ;; TODO: would be nice to support ';; coding: whatever' lines
> ;; like in parenthese-y Scheme.
> (set-port-encoding! port "UTF-8")
> (if (eof-object? (peek-char port))
> (read-char port) ; return eof: we’re done
> (let ((chunk (wisp-scheme-read-chunk port)))
> (and (not (null? chunk)) ; <---- XXX: maybe (pair? chunk)
> (car chunk))))))
>
> (untested).
>
> (I've also done the read-hash-extend stuff and simplified the 'cond'
> expressions.)
Thank you again for that!
Which begs an important question: How would you like to be attributed? I
plan to also merge this back to the wisp repo and I’d like to attribute
you there, too.
Best wishes,
Arne
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-03 21:26 [PATCH] add language/wisp to Guile? Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-04 15:08 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-04 15:46 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-04 19:09 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-04 21:35 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-05 15:08 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-14 8:32 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-14 21:24 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-14 23:01 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-15 1:46 ` Matt Wette
2023-02-16 21:38 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-17 1:26 ` Matt Wette
2023-02-23 11:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-23 17:48 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-23 18:42 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-24 15:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-24 16:34 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-08 10:34 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-05-01 9:54 ` [PATCH] add SRFI-119 / language/wisp to Guile? (new patch, squashed) Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-10 16:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-06-12 10:22 ` Maxime Devos
2023-08-10 6:28 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-08-14 20:11 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-08-14 20:30 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-08-14 22:43 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-08-18 10:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-18 12:16 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-08-18 17:50 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-09-08 17:46 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-10-05 14:10 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-10-10 23:04 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-10-27 22:05 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-01-09 7:05 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-01-19 8:21 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-03-11 1:16 ` [PATCH] add SRFI-119 / language/wisp to Guile? (new patch with more tests, squashed) Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-01-19 12:10 ` [PATCH] add SRFI-119 / language/wisp to Guile? (new patch, squashed) Christina O'Donnell
2024-01-19 21:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-01-19 21:47 ` Christina O'Donnell
2024-01-20 11:01 ` Damien Mattei
2024-01-20 19:18 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-01-20 22:59 ` Damien Mattei
2024-01-20 23:22 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-01-21 23:21 ` Damien Mattei
2024-01-19 23:56 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-24 23:48 ` [PATCH] add language/wisp to Guile? Maxime Devos
2023-02-24 23:51 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-25 0:15 ` Matt Wette
2023-02-25 10:42 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-17 23:06 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-18 3:50 ` Philip McGrath
2023-02-18 15:58 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-18 19:56 ` Matt Wette
2023-02-21 12:09 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-26 7:45 ` Philip McGrath
2023-02-26 15:42 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-26 16:14 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-26 17:58 ` Matt Wette
2023-02-26 18:03 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-26 18:20 ` Matt Wette
2023-02-26 21:39 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-10-02 14:59 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2023-10-02 21:46 ` guile support for multiple languages [was: [PATCH] add language/wisp to Guile?] Matt Wette
2023-02-23 7:59 ` [PATCH] add language/wisp to Guile? Maxime Devos
2023-02-23 8:51 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-23 18:04 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-23 18:22 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-23 18:36 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-23 18:37 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-15 8:36 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2023-02-15 20:13 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-16 7:01 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-16 8:03 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-16 11:30 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-16 21:35 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-09-30 13:17 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2023-09-30 20:09 ` Maxime Devos
2023-10-02 14:48 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
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2023-02-26 11:02 ` Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
2023-02-26 23:22 ` Philip McGrath
2023-02-27 5:00 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-02-27 7:26 ` Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
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