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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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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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Unless I missed it in my cursory scan of the project, it appears that Cyclone lacks `apropos` support. (Something I wish was in RnRS). In order for [geiser](https://github.com/jaor/geiser) to support …
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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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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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> [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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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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Some Scheme implementations that run on multiple operating systems expose the operating system trough (features). This is very handy when writing portable code. Two implementations that do this are Sa…