Re: [ANN] guile-msgpack: MessagePack for GNU Guile (+ help needed)

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 7:32 PM HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
>


> How popular is r6rs anyway? From what I gathered it was pretty badly
> received
> and r7rs small was intentionally designed to be less ambitious, while the
> upcoming r7rs will be larger than even Common Lisp.
>

That's basically correct, but there are still a fair number of R6RS-only
implementations, and if the number isn't growing, it's not shrinking either.
Racket has an unofficial R7RS implementation, but I don't expect that
to happen with Chez, Guile, Ikarus, IronScheme, Mosh, or Ypsilon.
(Larceny and Sagittarius are hybrid R6RS/R7RS systems.)
Some of these are more in development than others, but you
never can tell with a Scheme implementation when a new release
will appear without warning.  In addition, it's not hard to transform
R6RS libraries to R7RS ones or vice versa.


> Yes, after writing my original email I found out how to bind an unknown
> number
> of values, but there doesn't seem to be a way of returning an unknown
> number
> of values.
>

(apply values list-of-vals) is your friend.


> > GoFundMe seems like the right thing.
> GoFundMe is about fundraising campaigns, I was thinking something along
> the
> lines of a tip-jar where you can chip in a little if you want.
>

You might look into Open Collective.

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