From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: vm.texi: A virtual machine for guile Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:30:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87r636ltzi.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231885848 28776 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2009 22:30:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:30:48 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 23:32:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMrnd-0001dW-L3 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:31:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMrmN-0000T1-4u for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMrmJ-0000PT-FZ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMrmH-0000Lj-PU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43592 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMrmG-0000K6-SH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55914 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMrmF-0001la-2C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LMrm6-0002H2-Dm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:30:18 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:30:18 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:30:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Niv=F4se?= an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7vLLbEqM5uRehbDjpaHNRtshJUY= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8002 Archived-At: Hello! You rock! I didn't read it in details, but I'm amazed by the clarity of the explanations and the level of details, so thank you! A bit of nitpicking since it's what I'm good at: Andy Wingo writes: > Guile has both an interpreter and a compiler. To a user, the > difference is largely transparent -- interpreted and compiled I think "transparent---interpreted" yields the typographically correct output in Info/TeX. > For a long time, Guile only had an interpreter, called the evaluator. Maybe "@defn{evaluator}" and perhaps also an `@cindex'. > values, call/cc) and can provide optimized inline instructions for > Guile (cons, struct-ref, etc.). A couple of `@code' here. Other than these small formatting issues, the material appears to be very good to me. Keep up the good work! :-) Ludo'.