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<vanila>if a have a grammar for my macro is there a nice way to recognize it and provide error messagse?

<vanila>like say i wanted add a form (LET ((<VAR> <EXP>) ...) <BODY> ...) as a macro

<vanila>it could give syntax errors if someone did, asy (let #t 3)

<jcowan>Typically, the syntax-rules system generates error messages if no template pattern is matched

<jcowan>In R6RS or R7RS systems, you can also provoke your own errors by making the macro expand to a call on syntax-error.

<vanila>i was hoping for a thing that lets you describe a grammar but maybe i need to invent that myself

<vanila>because i feel like syntax-rules doesn't give enough good/clear error messages but maybe guiles does

<paroneayea>oh hey

<paroneayea>8sync is now a gnu project

<paroneayea>dubbed canonically by ye olde rms

<paroneayea>get ye flask, and etc

<calher>OK, I'm angry.

<calher>Since wak was hosted on Gitorious, I can't download it.

<calher>And the only Guile-powered IRC bot I know of, cunning-bot, relies on wak.

<calher>,foo

<calher>!foo

<vanila> https://gitorious.org/wak/wak-common.git/ no use?

<calher>How am I supposed to get this running if I can't get wak because the project is on a defunct host?

<calher>vanila: I was trying to get <git://gitorious.org/wak/$system.git>.

<calher>vanila: I mean <git://gitorious.org/wak/guile.git>.

<calher>But regular <https://gitorious.org/wak/> returns a 404 error, vanila.

<vanila>curl https://gitorious.org/index-list.html | grep 'wak/'

<vanila>this lists the repos there and sadly guile isn't in it

<calher>Well cunning-bot has it as a dep!

<calher>cunning-bot is for Guile!

<vanila>maybe you could ask the author of cunning-bot

<calher>No updates since 2014.

<vanila>they must have the code saved

<calher>And I wanted to get it running today, because I'm on a live system and I can't just save stuff.

<calher>I hate GitLab.

<vanila>maybe you could PM ijp

<vanila>he's also contributed to the bot so might have the wak code

<calher>God, I'm banned from #fsf. I hate myself.

<calher>OK, PM'd aidalgol. ijp not present.

<wleslie>there's also sarah, which sneek is based on?

<wleslie>sneek: sarah

<wleslie>sneek: what is sarah?

<paroneayea>calher: 8sync includes some irc bot code

<paroneayea>it's early stuff though

<paroneayea>anyway bbiab

<calher_>Hi. I discovered a great project. It's called guile-wm, and it's a WM/WM framework for Guile. So now the window manager can be edited in Guile along with the rest of the system! (GuixSD.)

<alezost>I guess everyone knows about this project

<calher_>alezost: Ah, I guess it's in the Guix package listings. Nevermind.

<alezost>calher_: unfortunately guile-wm hasn't been actively developed since it's first release (for about 2 years now)

<calher_>alezost: Does it work?

<alezost>yes

<calher_>I seem to like WMs that are not maintained.

<calher_>One of my pet WMs is MCWM, which is abandoned because the dev uses a Mac now.

<calher_>What do I do if a string exceeds 79 characters?

<alezost>make 2 lines?

<calher_>But how? I don't want the line break in the string.

<calher_>(description "MCWM is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System written from scratch in C directly on top of @url{https://xcb.freedesktop.org/ XCB}. It is a traditional floating window manager with @url{a lot of features http://hack.org/mc/projects/mcwm/features.html} but without the bloat.")

<alezost>I think it's for #guix: in emacs you press M-q

<nalaginrut>oh, there're only 6 days

<nalaginrut>(but sounds enough for something)

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<amz`>potluck!

<civodul>potluck! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-02/msg00057.html

<davexunit>wee!

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<nalaginrut>ACTION has decided his dish

<vanila>hello

<amz32>haha wiredtiger was first released release around the same time of a potluck :p

<amz32>I should probably try to do something useful with wiredtiger and guile for the potluck

<vanila>what is potluck?

<amz32> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-02/msg00057.html

<amz32>vanila: ^

<vanila>thanks

<nalaginrut>ACTION just watched wingo's latest video about 2.2, really cool progress

<wingo>:)

<davexunit>hmmm, I might be fresh out of hacks for the pot luck this time around.

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<daviid>hello guilers!

<daviid>I'm very pleased to pre-announce here, in our friendly, nice and best hackers in the world :) channel that Kisê, which has been under GNU evaluation for quite a long time, not because of its quality or what so ever, but because of the name, is/will now become a GNU package, but with a different name: Foliot, GNU Foliot.

<xyh>what is it ?

<daviid>xyh: a small guile-gnome timekeeping app

<daviid>xyh, here: http://www.altosw.be/kise/

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<calher>Trying Guile WM.

<sneek>calher, you have 2 messages.

<sneek>calher, civodul says: the 'tor' user is automatically created when using 'tor-service'

<calher>ok civodul

<calher>Anyone here use Guile WM?

<civodul>i tried it but there were a few glitches that i never took the time to fix

<davexunit>same boat

<davexunit>I actually fixed a couple issues, though.

<davexunit>but couldn't track down one particular showstopper

<davexunit>so I went back to comfort

<calher>If you can't firgure it out, I can't figure it out. It's doomed.

<davexunit>doomed is too grim. it just needs some love, like Charlie Brown's christmas tree.

<daviid>:)

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