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<ota>Can't believe it has only 971 hits. <janneke>scheme@(guile-user)> (string->symbol (number->string 1)) <janneke>;;; <unknown-location>: warning: possibly unbound variable `#{1}#' <janneke>ERROR: In procedure #<procedure 28a62c0 ()>: <janneke>ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: #{1}# <wingo>what on earth is a number symbol? <janneke>what i typed above: (string->symbol (number->string 1)) <wingo>in the same logical category as pancake pizzas :) <wingo>i mean, i guess you're asking for: '#{1}# <wingo>there are other symbol read syntaxes ***Gues_____ is now known as Guest83924
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<mgsk>Can guile threads be paused? <nicferrier>does anyone think I should bother updating this or does guile have better solutions than this now? <taylanub>nicferrier: I'm really asking because I don't know: what can libxml do other than reading XML into a native data structure, accessing parts of it declaratively, applying declarative transformations to it, etc. ? <taylanub>I didn't use XML much in my life. Used a SAX parser once, XPath a couple times, wrote an XSLT file once, and that's about it. <nicferrier>libxml is fast. very fast. it has schema validation and comprehensive xpath and blah blah blah. <taylanub>Ah, schemas. There seems to be no schema-validation in the SXML module. It has something akin to XPath though. Also seems to be purely in Scheme, so I guess libxml might be desired instead in some situations where highest possible performance is needed. <nicferrier>and where xpath or xml or xslt is required. instead of the s- equivalents. <taylanub>Well XML is obviously covered. And isn't XPath something that only appears in code ? (Or would an sxpath->xpath be useful for some reason ?) XSLT documents can indeed stand on their own though I guess, so you'd want something that can read and apply them. <civodul>nicferrier: the SXML modules convert back and forth between XML and SXML <nicferrier>civodul: sure they do. that doesn't invalidate my point or my question though. <civodul>i think i arrived after your initial comment actually :-) <civodul>but yeah, it may be slower than libxml, and perhaps lacks some features too <civodul>in my experience, it's pleasant to use though <civodul>just in time: it's almost Saturday here :-) <ijp>I remember back when friday lasted all day