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<nalaginrut>morning guilers~

<nalaginrut>sneek: later tell Chaos`Eternal Even errno is thread-safe now (because of TLS), it may not be safe in a specific thread, since it's global in a thread. If you can't guarantee to fetch errno value immediately after any possible change, then safe issue is suspended. That's why I said "errno is still a problem in a thread". Anyway, just for a mention. ;-)

<sneek>Okay.

<paroneayea>hello

<mark_weaver>hi paroneayea!

<paroneayea>hey mark_weaver, how goes

*paroneayea is struggling through updating ssl certs, sigh

<mark_weaver>wingo wrote a nice rant about that: http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/10/17/ffs-ssl

<paroneayea>yeah, I loved wingo's piece

<civodul>Hello Guilers!

***unCork is now known as Cork

<dsmith-work>Morning Greetings, Guilers

***dje is now known as dje42

*davexunit wonders about applying monads to a particle simulation

<rekado>I've got a couple of accessor functions that all follow the same pattern. What is the best tool to use when I want to generate boilerplate code at compile time?

<rekado>(I suspect the answer is "macros", but I don't really know how.)

<rekado>oh, I got it: eval.

<mark_weaver>rekado: no, macros are much better than eval for this.

<mark_weaver>sneek: seen rlb

<sneek>rlb was here Oct 29 at 07:26 pm UTC, saying: (for projects that still keep ChangeLogs...).

<jmd>sneek: Which year?

<stis>heya folks, I just released 0.5.3 of guile-log!!

<stis> https://gitorious.org/gule-log for the code

<stis> http://c-lambda.se/guile-log/ to read the manual

<stis>One cool thing is tabling, another is that it can gc logical variables.

<stis>Have fun!

<jmd>Is there anything like agrep for guile ?

<civodul>what's "agrep"?

<jmd>approxiamate grep

<jmd>finds approximations to strings

<fangism>sounds useful!

<civodul>indeed

<davexunit>yeah, would love something like that

<davexunit>does it work with regexps?

<davexunit>it's something I'd like really to have for guix

<davexunit>but it's not exactly a simple problem area

<jmd>Indeed

<jmd>Coupled with a synonym database it could be pretty awesome.

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