<galex|713>How do I set the content bound to a quoted symbol? <galex|713>because I can’t do (set! (string->symbol some-string) some-content) <galex|713>So I’d like something like elisp’s “set” is to “setq” <ijp>short answer, you can't <ijp>longer answer, you can do it for top levels, but not other variables <galex|713>And why can’t you do that with scheme while you can with elisp? <ijp>because the scheme designers decided it was a bad idea <ijp>and they were and are right <galex|713>oh wait there is symbol-set! (just found it) <galex|713>What if you want to write some vars value in files whose name is the name of the var? <ijp>this has never occurred to me ever <galex|713>and you have enough variables so that you want to iterate through a list of them <galex|713>Strangely I always encounter problems other don’t… maybe I use to do stuff wrong <ijp>lexical scope means names don't matter <ijp>a lesson lost on the designers of almost every language you can name <galex|713>so what if you want to DRY and use the same word for naming variable and the associated file? <ijp>I'm not sure why you are associating variables and files in the first place <ijp>I have no idea what you mean, and I don't really care tbh <galex|713>like I want a variable content to restore after the process stopped/restarted <cky>Congrats on the 2.0.12 release!!! :-D <amz3`>and my database tower crumble... <amz3`>things seems to work when actually they only happen to work! <amz3`>does anyone has a tutorial on how to make coverage work? <amz3`>what can I do that is not bogged to fail? that is the question <amz3`>looks like another bug in wiredtiger... <civodul>congrats on getting 2.0.12 out the door <amz3`>seems like my use of wiredtiger is orthogonal to the use of mongodb <amz3`>at least they don't seem to use the indices provided by wiredtiger <amz3`>yeah greping through their code there is no index table in mongodb <amz3`>this is (was?) promising a promising project, but now with mongodb in the mix I'm not sure anymore <amz3`>especially since I heard that they (mongodb) make dubuious choices <amz3`>I recognize my inability to work with SQL, I am hopeless after 5 years in the industry I still can't write SQL without checking every single command <amz3`>the worst in this wiredtiger bug story, is that my code is also buggy but I managed to find the bug through my faulty code :)) <ArneBab_>amz3`: is checking every single command a problem or rather a strength? ☺ <daviid>nonetheless, congrat for the release of course! <daviid>i build from the source, i can try the tarball, though i shouldn't have to <amz3`>ArneBab_: the problem is that I fear to write SQL because of the time it takes me to do so <amz3`>but obviously I should do so, to improve my knowledge... <daviid>wow! so that's it: 'make distclean' was not enough, you need 'git clean 'dxf', so now i can compile from the source as well ***frofroggy1 is now known as frofroggy