From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile warts Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:22:37 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znbgkoya.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87smkc5b22.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org> <874qwhsa2u.fsf@zip.com.au> <1074535797.1517.64.camel@localhost> <87fze6x5bu.fsf_-_@alice.rotty.yi.org> <1075664499.3688.125.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077144950 18101 80.91.224.253 (18 Feb 2004 22:55:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 18 23:55:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtabY-0006Fg-00 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:55:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtaEG-0003Mp-Uo for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:31:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtaB4-00022O-8z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:28:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtaAM-0001hz-A8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AtaAG-0001gb-F8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.8.218] (helo=mail.dokom.net) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ata5X-00074M-CE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.253.16.157] (helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 1Ata6o-0002of-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:23:59 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 26912 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Feb 2004 22:22:37 -0000 Original-To: Andy Wingo In-Reply-To: <1075664499.3688.125.camel@localhost> (Andy Wingo's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:41:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3409 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3409 Andy Wingo writes: > * The default namespace is a mess Yes. > ** There are undocumented reserved words, like `app' and `repl' Yes. > ** Some things in the default namespace should really be in modules of > their own Yes. > I don't want to sound negative. I'm so much happier programming in guile > scheme than in any other language I've tried. But I do want feedback > from the devs: are these complaints valid, and is there anyone who is > working on them? The problems are known, but no one is really working on them yet. I'd like to first make 1.8 ready and then restructure boot-9, etc. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel