From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:56:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9f37vi2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ0_8Byj6-D01eq_YbgJmioLAi4RKzER+-Qab_ovfbRbCg@mail.gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:45:53 +0200")
Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> I do not have a strong opinion but I am still perplex if it really
> simplifies because all the material around about Scheme and especially
> the Guile manual still uses #t/#f and not #true/#false. For example,
>
> $ guix repl
> GNU Guile 3.0.4
> Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
> This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
>
> Enter `,help' for help.
> scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(gnu packages base)
> scheme@(guix-user)> (eq? hello coreutils)
> $1 = #f
>
> Is it possible to display #false instead? If not, I am not convinced
> it is really easier to read #true/#false in the Guix code, then #t/#f
> in the REPL or Guile documentation.
Currently it’s not possible to tell ‘write’ to write #true/#false. It
would be nice to have a way to enable this, optionally.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-21 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-16 10:38 Using #true and #false everywhere? Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-16 13:19 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-10-16 13:36 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-10-18 1:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-10-18 2:22 ` Bengt Richter
2020-10-19 20:45 ` zimoun
2020-10-21 9:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-10-20 9:57 ` Andreas Enge
2020-10-21 9:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-21 11:21 ` Andreas Enge
2020-10-21 15:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-21 11:51 ` Roel Janssen
2020-10-16 16:24 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-10-16 23:45 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-20 10:32 ` Andreas Enge
2020-10-20 11:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-10-20 12:02 ` zimoun
2020-10-20 12:59 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-10-20 13:11 ` zimoun
2020-10-20 13:32 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-10-20 14:26 ` zimoun
2020-10-20 15:48 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-10-21 1:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-10-21 6:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-10-21 10:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-20 12:45 ` zimoun
2020-10-20 12:55 ` Andreas Enge
2020-10-21 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-24 18:29 ` Robin Templeton
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2020-10-16 22:06 Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-17 0:25 ` jbranso
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