Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Matt Wette writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I posed a question on #guile IRC last weekend asking for use 
> cases for making
> Guile
> multi-lingual. The use case that came up was the desire to use 
> Guile as an
> extension
> that supports multiple languages for users. To that end, I 
> wonder how important
> it is
> to make these extension languages meet published language 
> conventions or
> standards.
> I believe to do so is too difficult: the Guile community does 
> not have the
> volunteer
> workforce people to achieve this. I think it would be more 
> practical to look
> for
> reasonable approximations. If this is the direction to go, then 
> should Guile
> name
> these extension languages according to what they attempt to 
> mimic (e.g.,
> javascript),
> or rather rename to something that has a similar sounding name 
> (e.g.,
> guavascript), or,
> as another option, rename with an extension monicker (e.g., 
> javascriptx)?
>
> Matt

Is this possibility for making Guile multi-lingual a promised 
feature,
or more of a wishlist type thing? I'll have to think about some 
ways
that might be good to approach this, because the limiting
volunteer-community is definitely going to be an issue.



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Brett M. Gilio
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