From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Uhl Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: First look at Guile Std Library available Date: 05 Jan 2004 18:36:07 -0700 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87wu89q8pj.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <20040103221857.GA518@Richard-Todds-Computer.local> <20040104035022.GA742@Richard-Todds-Computer.local> <3FF88AD5.6010701@vzavenue.net> <87isjr1bkb.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org> <3FF8EF71.6090802@vzavenue.net> <20040105200131.GA492@Richard-Todds-Computer.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073353569 10443 80.91.224.253 (6 Jan 2004 01:46:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:46:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 06 02:46:05 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 1AdgIH-0006oP-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 02:46:05 +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 1AdhEU-0000b9-EU for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:46:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AdhA3-0008KI-6t for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:41:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Adh9X-0008Fk-Fk for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:41:38 -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 1Adh9X-0008FX-8u for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:41:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.7.170.6] (helo=latakia.dyndns.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Adg8x-000797-6D for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 20:36:27 -0500 Original-Received: by latakia.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id B153A245AE; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:36:07 -0700 (MST) Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20040105200131.GA492@Richard-Todds-Computer.local> Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2540 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2540 Richard Todd writes: > > I'm hoping it ends up in-between, where we care enough to leave (std > ...) behind. Maybe indefinitely. Maybe for a couple years, so people > can upgrade old code. The nice thing about permanent interfaces is that one can always compile against them--which is why C code written by college students in the early 80s is often still useful. Or at least can be made to be so, anyway:-) > I don't want to argue about a hypothetical library cleanup for a > library that doesn't exist yet. I would like to put some effort into > producing that library. Naturally; it's very silly to care about supporting something which doesn't even exist yet. But it does make sense to consider what a good usable design would entail ahead of time, so that no backwards-incompatible changes to the API are needed in the future. Scheme is nicer than C in this regard, of course, as optional & rest parameters give one a certain flexibility. Anyway, what's the URL again? I really should try my hand at it. Although my one true project is to figure out number->string well enough to make it Do the Right Thing for decimals in bases other than 10 (I'm a big fan of duodecimal). -- Robert Uhl According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance. --G. Kleck, Policy Lessons from Recent Gun Control Research _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user