From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: (Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: [d.love@dl.ac.uk: dynamic loading of native code modules] Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:19:26 -0400 Organization: Kippona Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87pu0qjeox.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> References: <874rifqeo8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cxxkvj8.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <874riahonj.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Reply-To: Chris Beggy NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019596906 30284 127.0.0.1 (23 Apr 2002 21:21:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:21:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1707jO-0007sC-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:21:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1707io-0006dT-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com ([207.8.195.148]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1707hC-0006Vr-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Kippona) with ESMTP id g3NLJTlo029323 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit/Kippona) id g3NLJTgQ029322; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:19:29 -0400 X-Reply-To: Chris Beggy Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: lackawana.kippona.com 1019596766 29284 207.8.195.148 (23 Apr 2002 21:19:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@kippona.com X-gpgkeyid: 0x8060510A X-fingerprint: 6012 F8F8 29B3 67E4 0604 BCD2 F882 88AE 8060 510A Cancel-Lock: sha1:bwuzR99G2/GFmdhMYKkTx+WpZCM= Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:262 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:262 Rob Browning writes: > However I do feel like guile probably needs to be thought of as a > project still pretty "deep in the design phase", so while we need to Guile is an implementation of scheme, which is specified already, in about 50 pages, plus SRFIs. It started with the SCM codebase. What's being designed deeply? What will follow the deep design phase? > make a strong effort not to be gratuitous with our incompatibilities, > I suspect there will still be plenty going forward, for another few > releases at least. Why not implement guile to have generous backward compatiblity from version to version? Are you aware that lots of existing code written for guile is broken and un(re)usable? I'm just a wannabe user, who has a hard time using guile for anything beyond SICP exercises. Chris _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user