[gambit-list] Re: Gambit-C 4.0 beta 16
Alex Goldman
alex.gman at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 15:03:21 EST 2006
Hi
I've looked at the documentation, and I have some questions:
What does Gambit do to reduce name clutter in bigger than toy
programs? The following (what slib does) seems terribly inconvenient
and inflexible to me.
(define f '())
(define g '())
(let ()
;; .... lots of internal define's
(set! f f-implementation)
(set! g g-implementation))
Are there reader modifications that mimic Common Lisp's packages?
Incidentally, I tried to use the reference implementation of SRFI-82,
but it failed with beta 15.
If you do use gambit-generated code in your C program, can you also
use pthreads?
Gambit allows file-level declarations. Is it possible to declare a
specific variable to be fixnum or flonum, for example, or would that
be useless anyway?
Is it possible to UNload a shared library?
Is anyone successfully using Gambit on Microsoft platforms, compiled
with VC++ or MinGW?
Thanks
P.S. As of now, the web site still does not mention beta 16, and the
online documentation http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/doc/ is stuck
on beta 11.
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