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<iskarian>Hello all :) I have a method X that returns unspecified, or multiple (unknown number of) values, but using (let ((value (X)) (if (not (unspecified? value)) value ...)) only produces the first value. Is there a way to check for unspecified and also get all values? <iskarian>rlb, thanks for the reply; I saw those, but I do not know the number of values ahead of time... is there a way to make them work with an arbitrary number of values? <iskarian>Another question: is there a way to format an exception just like I'd see printed if I raised the exception? <flatwhatson>iskarian: you can (recieve args ...) instead of (receive (a b) ...) <flatwhatson>there's also call-with-values, eg. (call-with-values myfun list) will return a list of myfun's return values. <iskarian>oh... thanks, flatwhatson! that makes a lot of sense sense, but it'd be nice if it were in the manual, haha <flatwhatson>well, it does say "like the argument list in a lambda", which hints at this <iskarian>fair enough! all the dots make my head spin :) <flatwhatson>eg. (receive (a b . cs) (values 1 2 3 4 5) cs) gives (3 4 5) ***iskarian is now known as Guest8251
<leoprikler>e.g. (compose list mv-producer) gives you the values as a list ***iskarian is now known as Guest4146
<garjola>Hi all. I am new to guile and I am looking for a good book to get started. I am familiar with lisps (Elisp, some clojure years ago) and I have configured geiser on Emacs to start playing around. I have the info reference manual, but I was looking for a «project oriented» book to get familiar with modules and the usual dev cycle with guile. Any recommendations? Thanks! <leoprikler>There are books on Scheme, such as SICP, but few of them teach the Guile flavour for more or less obvious reasons. <leoprikler>I think The Little Schemer is also among the book titles, that people can read <dsmith>sneek: books is Try htdp and sicp <mwette>sicp: structure and interpretation of computer programs <garjola>Thanks for the pointers. I understand that there are no specific Guile books. I know SICP and HTDP, I will have a look at TSPL. <vijaymarupudi>Hello all! I'm new to guile, and looking into whether to make it my "main" language <vijaymarupudi>I was watching a bunch of talks by wingo on youtube, and was curious if there was any progress into the question of a new garbage collector? <vijaymarupudi>I don't want to depend on the Boehm for my C extensions if possible <vijaymarupudi>But generally, I've been enjoying Guile, thank you very much for maintaining and improving it! <leoprikler>w.r.t. GC in C extensions, I don't think you manually interact with boehm anyway, instead using the scm_gc_ calls