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<happy_gnu[m]>If I have '(1 2 3 4) or '(a b c d) is there a procedure to make that list into a single item '1234 or 'abcd
<happy_gnu[m]>Ohh I think is list->symbol
<dustyweb>sneek later tell civodul https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/draft-documents/smarm.md
<sneek>Okay.
<OrangeShark>yay I did it :)
<OrangeShark>I managed to post on amz3's blog
<Apteryx>Hello! How can I exit early, simulating (return my-value) ?
<Apteryx>ACTION is reading about prompts
<Apteryx>ooh, maybe call/ec is what I need
<Apteryx>I've settled for let/ec
<ArneBab_>sneek: later tell dustyweb: Is a language actually turing complete (as by its definition to be able to change an arbitrary amount of memory) — or even stronger: isn’t that language then one where its limit of turing completeness is explicitly defined?
<sneek>Will do.
<ArneBab_>sneek: botsnack
<sneek>:)
<ArneBab_>sneek: later tell dustyweb: and there you got me stumbling over the Magic turing machine again: http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html
<sneek>Okay.
<amz3>Apteryx: that's it! you can simulate return with call/cc and its friends
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<manumanumanu>amz3, Apteryx : if you are using guile only, let/ec or call/ec will be faster, since it has a lot better stack usage. It is not portable though, but hopefully r7rs-large will make it so (although I doubt it).
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<ArneBab_>manumanumanu: I didn’t know that — nice! thank you!
<dustyweb>did someone send me a message here? I disconnected, unfortunately
<sneek>Welcome back dustyweb, you have 2 messages.
<sneek>dustyweb, ArneBab_ says: Is a language actually turing complete (as by its definition to be able to change an arbitrary amount of memory) — or even stronger: isn’t that language then one where its limit of turing completeness is explicitly defined?
<sneek>dustyweb, ArneBab_ says: and there you got me stumbling over the Magic turing machine again: http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html
<dustyweb>ArneBab_: it does have an explicit constraint yes
<dustyweb>but one that doesn't prevent it from being able to run what we would call turing complete programs I think? :)
<ArneBab_>dustyweb: yepp.
<OrangeShark>Happy Wednesday
<Apteryx>Hello! I see this in the info manual: (error "Unrecognized option `~A'" name)
<Apteryx>but when I try `error' myself, the ~A or ~a is not expanded.
<Apteryx>Isn't this error procedure a builtin?
<stis>hej guilers!
<stis>how do you handle SCM types in the FFI interface?
<stis>found it, pointre->scm
<dustyweb>civodul is uncovering all the memory leaks :)
<civodul>they haunt me!
<dustyweb>heh
<Apteryx>can I use pipes in system* calls?