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: TODO list for Guile R7RS support Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87y5s27am2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vcngvbif.fsf@netris.org> <87k43uhegn.fsf@gnu.org> <871upzpqdd.fsf@gnu.org> <878vk7lzoy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329426328 13974 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2012 21:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Alex Shinn Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 16 22:05:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry8W1-0003We-2j for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40554 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry8W0-00071n-7o for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42301) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry8Vx-00071L-2Z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry8Vs-0006ps-4y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from xanadu.aquilenet.fr ([88.191.123.111]:57937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry8Vr-0006pd-JY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (xanadu.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) by xanadu.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DC07A1; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from xanadu.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (xanadu.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KkBuJ2fK+E+B; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from pluto (reverse-83.fdn.fr [80.67.176.83]) by xanadu.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 37730660; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:10 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 220 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: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Alex Shinn's message of "Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:35:20 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 88.191.123.111 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:13873 Archived-At: Hi, Alex Shinn skribis: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrot= e: [...] >> For GNU/Linux, one could imagine adding a =E2=80=98linux-gnu=E2=80=99 sy= mbol, for >> instance. =C2=A0Likewise for GNU/kFreeBSD. > > I'd like to hear feature recommendations, but you'd need specific > examples of where such features would be useful. Sorry for being unclear. I=E2=80=99m actually arguing that these feature symbols are largely useless= , for they cannot be rigorously specified and would almost certainly lead to misuses. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.