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mike@olan.com (Michael N. Livshin) writes: > 1. The Emacs interface that was recently included in the snapshot > obviously needs some Emacs-side support. What would that be? It will appear soon. > Also, > is there a way to disable the readline support short of activating the > Emacs support or hacking boot-9.scm? 'Cause I was perfectly > comfortable in Ilisp, but the above two new things mess it up (would > be great to check (isatty? (current-output-port)) before turning on > readline, for example :). 1998-06-09 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> * boot-9.scm: Check that (current-input-port) is a tty before enabling readline. (Thanks to Michael N. Livshin.) > 2. There are some things Guile needs. Just off the top of my head, we > need a better module system. Yes. > I remember discussions about it on this list. I'm sure some of the > maintainers has a preliminary design or a sketch lying somewhere, > accumulating dust till the said maintainer has more time (fat chance > of that, it seems!). Yes. > I'd probably take a stab at it if I were sure I'm not making some > terrible design errors. I'm sure seeing the design or whatever that > was aggried apon by the maintainers would help a lot, as I'm clearly > not seeing the whole picture (don't know a thing about dynamic > linking, for instance). If I actually implement something, the > maintainers are always free to reject it. So why not publicize the > design? There are two sketches at specifications: one for the low-level support for the module system (written in C) and one for the high-level package and module system. I'm sure there is no problem in publicizing them. It's just not for me to decide it, so I'll check with Jim first. > 3. My two little patches were ignored (q.scm queue exhaustion fix and > r5rs multiple values). Am I such a bad netizen, or is it just that > nobody cares about these things? Somebody will probably look at them at last. It is a very good thing that you sent them. Right now there seems to be a need of new persons in the inner core of developers who have more time to spend on Guile than the current ones... :( /mdj