GNU Guile 2.2.0
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GNU Guile 2.2.0
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Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#2Any word about Windows support?
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#3The mailing list announcement is better both for the detailed content and not being served as difficult to read on mobile "justified" text: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-03/msg00...
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#4Why are those brackets there in the syntax? What's the need? It looks hard to read when the programs are bigger. Is there any super advantage to it?
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#5Anyone tried GuileEmacs with this version and noticed any differences?
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#6Also check out this personal blog post from Andy Wingo, the primary developer:
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#7Why are those brackets there in the syntax? What's the need? It looks hard to read when the programs are bigger. Is there any super advantage to it?
Lisp nostalgia?
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#8Why are those brackets there in the syntax? What's the need? It looks hard to read when the programs are bigger. Is there any super advantage to it?
It's a LISP dialect. Brackets are essential to tell the difference between arguments and function calls... take for example in C: foo(bar(1)) would in lisp be (foo (bar 1)).
If it were to just be "foo bar 1", you couldn't tell the difference between (C style again for clarity): foo(bar(1)) and foo(bar, 1).
Some newer functional languages have a composition operator which allows you to write this without the brackets, but the brackets still are easier to follow in many cases.
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#9The mailing list announcement is better both for the detailed content and not being served as difficult to read on mobile "justified" text: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-03/msg00...
Thank you, I gave up reading it because of the justification. There was no "reader" version available for Safari either.
Re: GNU Guile 2.2.0
#10How does this stack up against all the other popular Lisp variants out there?