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<stratotanker>Guile manual tell me that when catching exception with key 'misc-error, args can be used with simple-format

<stratotanker>I'm not able to do it

<stratotanker>args is a list with (#f format-spec arg1...)

<stratotanker>so, (simple-format args) not valid, how i can pass args to simple-format?

<mwette>I use the following:

<mwette>(lambda (key fmt . args) (apply simple-format #t fmt args))

<davexunit>rekado: no yaml library that I know of. I wrote a really hacky subset of a yaml parser before, but the yaml standard is *terrifying* so I gave up going further.

<dustyweb>davexunit: YaML is really the worst of the *ML family of languages ;)

<ijp>We should have a bug tool in guile called guilt

<davexunit>dustyweb: hahaha

<davexunit>ijp: +1

<dsmith-work>Monday Greetings, Guilers

<cmaloney>(tzag)

<rekado>davexunit: I only really need strings and lists, so a small subset of the specs would probably be sufficient for my purposes.

<amz3>sneek! oh! sneek come back to our room, it's full of blooming conversation, that needs your presence to be the perfect place to be on the internet

<OrangeShark>hello

<amz3>hi OrangeShark!

<amz3>OrangeShark: how are you doing?

<OrangeShark>I am alright, how are you amz3?

<amz3>fine :)

<dsmith-work>amz3: Ah fouey! Forgot to check on sneek over the weekend.

<dsmith-work>I'll try to remember tonight.

<manumanumanu>Has anyone tried porting clojures data structures to guile?

<arximboldi>manumanumanu: i have been experiment with immutable vectors, by binding my C++ library: https://sinusoid.es/immer/guile.html

<arximboldi>these vectors are more powerful than clojure's though, they are based on rrb-trees so they support log-n concat/slicing/insertion at any point

<arximboldi>while having similar performance otherwise

<arximboldi>I think wingo has been experimenting with pure scheme implementations though

<ijp>Guile uses integer map/set types internally that come from clojure

<ijp>my own functional vector library (pfds sequences) is not based on clojure, but on fingertrees, and my (fectors) is a whole different thing that is only semi-persistent

<manumanumanu>arximboldi: wow. that's impressive!

<ijp>GSOC Wrap-up sent to guile-user

<ijp>fectors doesn't get any love, my code mostly acts as a reference point for when I want to talk about that implementation strategy

<dustyweb>ijp: yay!

<manumanumanu>ijp: why leftist tree and not a pairing heap?

<manumanumanu>I always managed to squeeze slightly better performance from pairing heaps

<ijp>manumanumanu: what's the context for that?

<manumanumanu>ijp: oh. sorry, pdfs heaps are based on leftist trees

<manumanumanu>I haven't tested in guile though, but for most other projects I have found pairing heaps to give slightly better performance

<ijp>Ah. At the time I was needing a priority queue, and wasn't focusing too much on speed, so I implemented the one I could do from memory

<manumanumanu>If you want you can have my pairing heap.

<ijp>pfds has some conflicting goals in mind. Portability really hurts its performance on guile

<manumanumanu>how portable?

<manumanumanu>my pairing heap is r6rs

<ijp>pure r6rs

<ijp>If you want to link me the code, or send a pull request, or whatever, I can take a look, but I haven't really been focussing on pfds

<manumanumanu>ijp: https://bitbucket.org/bjoli/nietzsche/src/1769998a800955d5831aa7c0c8b3c31ba00f7050/data/pairing-heap.scm?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default

<manumanumanu>I'll have a look if I can make a PR

<manumanumanu>whatever you do, don't look at the other code. much of it is crap

<manumanumanu>That's it for me. good night

<ijp>night

<dustyweb>gnite ijp

<dustyweb>btw here's the link to ijp's guile-user update on gsoc https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-08/msg00070.html

<dustyweb>#lazyweb

<dustyweb>#lazyirc?

<cmaloney>#l

<cmaloney>(too lasy to type the rest)

<cmaloney>s/lasy/lazy/g even

<daviid>ijp: congrat for the strong dedication and the good work!

<amz3>ijp: what's the option you use to increase stack frame limit?

<amz3>in browsers that is

<amz3>ACTION reading ijp post

<dustyweb>amz3: it's in the post

<dustyweb>see the command with "node"

<amz3>ah yes, I was looking for the same thing under firefox

<amz3>nvm

<amz3>ijp: great achievement, you succeed where I failed numerous times! very great!

<amz3>(and I know javascript :p)

<cmaloney>Isn't writing in JavaScript just taking a 1 in 6 chance of returning NaN or undefined? :)

<dsmith-work>ijp: Yes Congrats!

<dsmith-work>ijp: Talking to someone forces you to collect your random nebulous thoughts into clear language. That very act often brings solutions.

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