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<alexei_>"searching for" is not yet "loading"
<mark_weaver>existing code that uses 'search_path' assumes that it will exclude directories. we cannot change that without breaking things.
<alexei_>that is all right. I will put a dummy config file into that dir. Just another opinion for statistics.
<ijp>and search-path is pretty explicit that it searches for files
<mark_weaver>alexei_: (define (search-path* path name) (or-map (lambda (d) (let ((p (string-append d "/" name))) (and (file-exists? p) p))) path))
<alexei_>thanks! I will have to add some kind of "manifest file" anyway. The files I search for have litle metadata. These are not Scheme sources, actually.
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<ijp>I know how you all love my abuses of fold, this is one that occurred on #emacs https://gist.github.com/ijp/6630706 :)
<ijp>please send prescriptions for anti-psychotics to ianprice90@googlemail.com
<mark_weaver>:)
<mark_weaver>ijp: sometimes I think that if you spent half the time on Guile that you spend on crazy uses of 'fold', you'd be a top contributor :)
<ijp>I think you need to phrase patches in the form of "I bet you can't"
<mark_weaver>heh
<mark_weaver>that's a good idea :)
<mark_weaver>ijp: I bet you can't improve the (ice-9 match) documentation :)
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<wingo>moin
<civodul>Hello Guilers!
<wingo>morning civodul :)
<civodul>hey hey! :-)
<ijp>afternoon
<wingo>ahoi
<dsmith-work>Hayypy Friday, Guilers!!
<ijp>til weinholt wrote an erlang supercompiler
<weinholt>i guess so
<weinholt>and now i work for ericsson, though ironically not on anything related to erlang
<weinholt>ijp, how did you find out? :)
<ijp>I saw it on your github
<ijp>if you wanted it a secret, it should have been on sourceforge :)
<ijp>weinholt: what made you choose that for your masters?
<weinholt>my professor had heard of a problem, suggested i try to solve it for my thesis, and after reading up on it a supercompiler seemed like the most fun solution
<weinholt>did you try the scheme prototype?
<dsmith-work>What is a supercompiler?
<weinholt>it's a kind of optimizer
<dsmith-work>tack
<weinholt>:)