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While writing https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/pull/297 I wondered how to approach type checking in Gerbil and Scheme in general. This issue should serve to organize discussion around this topic until i…
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Someone askes on /r/lisp Sub Reddit: [Python's approach is much better {{{ x= ( 10 * [a] ) }}} because i don't have to remember the (ad-hoc) name of the function.](https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/commen…
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Currently if you have this directory structure:
bar/baz.sld:
(define-library
(bar baz)
(import (scheme base)
(scheme write))
(export hello)
(begin
(include "baz.scm")…
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> [The datatype] `Foo` is not importable because it is not reified and therefore not a Scheme type.
_Originally posted by @johnwcowan in https://github.com/pre-srfi/static-scheme/issues/13#issuecom…
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Just got a message from Nils M Holm. He did few books about Scheme and pointed to:
http://t3x.org/s9fes/lib.html and http://t3x.org/s9fes/contrib.html
the code is from the book "Scheme 9 from Em…
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In working on writing some unit tests for R7RS string procedures, I discovered a bug that is triggered by evaluating certain string escape sequences in the REPL. It may also occur in other contexts (…
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Are the auto-generated `.c` files for gsc good enough for a bootstrap?
If so, could we create zip/tar archives of the `.c` files from CI builds and people could then extract those archives over a G…
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Here's a radical thought: what if we stopped allowing users to use unescaped `"` and `;` in their configurations? This would obviously break all existing configs, but perhaps it is worth it (with the…
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SRFI-95, for example, is part of SLIB, and STklos users do have access to SLIB.
But it would be nice to have SRFIs working in a uniform way, no? So the user could just `(require "srfi-95")`?
In th…
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The way Gerbil's build system currently works makes it quite difficult to package, especially on distributions that aim for reproducibility. Here are some ways you can make the build more manageable:
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