From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfti1pp0.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv8726lm.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:07:01 +0200")
Hi Jan,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
> Mark H Weaver writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>>> Before the RMS/GNU/FSF conversation started, Mark Weaver left Guile, for
>>> essentially unrelated reasons. He threatened to leave because he wished
>>> to be consulted before I landed mixed definitions and expressions and
>>> shipped them in the 2.9.4 release;
>>
>> The funny thing is, I don't actually have a strong opinion on this
>> particular change.
>>
>> What I *do* have a strong opinion on is that you made the decision
>> unilaterally, without discussion on the mailing list
>
> I have been worrying a bit about this change because I do not see how to
> implement it in Mes.
There's a straightforward way to translate a body containing mixed
definitions and expressions into a 'letrec*'. It's illustrated in the
commit log, and in the manual:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=20535922147cd5992330962aaa5c4986563fc905
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/doc/ref/api-binding.texi?id=5284b9b9c6cecc404a912acaefce2b883ac0dbba#n284
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-16 13:14 conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile Andy Wingo
2019-10-16 14:11 ` Thompson, David
2019-10-16 15:33 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-10-16 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 17:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-16 18:27 ` Jean Louis
2019-10-16 18:27 ` Jean Louis
2019-10-16 19:30 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-18 9:44 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2019-10-16 18:12 ` Jean Louis
[not found] ` <CAGua6m3d_t2hd7P2ueTsPZytF7pNO7f8xptBWofPw9UvyYWDaw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-10-16 21:32 ` Fwd: " Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2019-10-16 21:56 ` Tadeus Prastowo
2019-10-16 22:05 ` Adrienne G. Thompson
2019-10-18 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-18 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-18 10:37 ` Tadeus Prastowo
2019-10-16 19:21 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2019-10-16 21:03 ` Linus Björnstam
2019-10-17 0:18 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-10-17 1:24 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-17 7:07 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2019-10-18 7:24 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-10-19 7:51 ` Guile and Mes [WAS: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile] Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2019-10-19 8:56 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2019-10-18 11:20 ` conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-10-18 13:14 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-18 13:33 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-10-18 13:49 ` Thompson, David
2019-10-17 1:40 ` Mike Gran
2019-10-17 2:11 ` Neil Van Dyke
2019-10-17 18:11 ` Mikhail Kryshen
2019-10-18 9:26 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2019-10-19 4:03 ` Mikhail Kryshen
2019-10-18 1:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-18 6:31 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-18 9:20 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2019-10-18 14:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-19 22:55 ` Taylan Kammer
2019-10-20 3:08 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-20 3:54 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-10-20 19:12 ` Taylan Kammer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-18 11:29 Todor Kondić
2019-10-18 15:09 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-18 11:45 Mark H Weaver
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