From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Butler Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: "Missing" libraries/concepts found in other languages/ecosystems? Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:12:27 -0500 Message-ID: <86lfjswoac.fsf@x201.butler.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6972"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 20:12:44 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jtb2K-0001iS-Ah for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:12:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45238 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtb2J-0001d9-Cf for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:12:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtb29-0001cq-5V for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from umce3cip03.ad.umanitoba.ca ([130.179.21.18]:38272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtb27-0003Bu-Ci for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:12:32 -0400 IronPort-SDR: HH6WFBbwAtvrKuazhgHgVj6cfFSAy4sYsJ2nFDEaKSgm1Hu6xZVfWUgDvgJb9Q9SADLkUfHpFn 4cWrFjjD+dcwHEpHyl9zJaZ3dYB4h52+QnQL2CfpJL4LRWVRIUuHOPvW0XHoYBm8mouBsMM/7i X+tWUdb6IkNLnY1WzwU/ZUrIt9YrlcO3ZxcnW4y7yp4KaJP85W8WfhO2Ha1LcQh46eR59BoJEN GGBMRTax6hBhxRQq8w20ZckKVHb5GHioCALlUxp0yGefIRpPQvOfctNiY9VhBwIUupVnAcbLmn 0uWz8uiUZgTD/eTdqzAeTdEc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,332,1589259600"; d="scan'208";a="53004060" Original-Received: from 194.33.44.45.in-addr.arpa (HELO x201) ([45.44.33.194]) by umce3cip03.ad.umanitoba.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 09 Jul 2020 13:12:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Zelphir Kaltstahl's message of "Wed, 8 Jul 2020 20:22:17 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=130.179.21.18; envelope-from=prvs=452596b04=leo.butler@umanitoba.ca; helo=umce3cip03.ad.umanitoba.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/09 14:12:29 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = FreeBSD 9.x or newer X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:16647 Archived-At: Zelphir Kaltstahl writes: > To what others already have written I will add: > > From time to time one can copy ideas from Racket or look at what exists > in Racket for solving a problem or seeing what the approach is. > > Catonano identified already the lack of examples in the Guile guide. I > fight with that myself, so I created a repository with examples. Perhaps > I should somehow add them to the guide. I've not looked into how to do > that. Probably some commit in a repo somewhere for the guide: > > https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-examples > > Hope this can help! Oh yes, thank you. That repository is a gem. (I think it wouldn't take too much work to transform the repo as is into a texinfo document on its own.) --- The guile guide has been knocked. I agree that it could use more examples, but I have found it is well-written and accurate. Leo