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<euouae>Hello, I was looking at the HACKING file and it says that papers should be signed (for copyright transfer) for significant contributions from contributors

<euouae>I know that's something I had to do for Emacs, but I haven't seen Guile follow this. Is it old advice in HACKING or has it been neglected?

<old>sneek: later tell euouae that AFAIK, we don't need to sign these anymore. Either the contribution is no legaly significant < 15 lines or you bump the copyright year in the file to this year or you add yourself to the copyright list

<sneek>Okay.

<old>weird that bitvector->number does not exist

<duncan>bitvector->integer does

<duncan>in srfi 178

<old>duncan: nice

<old>I guess would be nice to add this to core guile (the SRFI)

<old>eh why did srfi-158 did not define accumulator with no argument to return the state instead of using eof-object

<ArneBab>why (since when) is the guile reference manual in the guix subdomain and with guix branding? https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/ forwards to https://doc.guix.gnu.org/guile/latest/en/html_node/index.html --- I just stepped through three different search results, because I thought I had landed in the guix docs instead of the Guile docs.

<ArneBab>(I didn’t notice before, because I usually only use the Guile Reference Manual via info)

<duncan>old: on #scheme someone mentioned an alternative design based on delimited continuations instead of thunks

<PuercoPop>ArneBab: iirc that is not limited to guile. There are other project manuals like bash and gdb are included as well. Not sure what is the criteria https://doc.guix.gnu.org/

<PuercoPop>I found about the page looking for the gdb manual a while ago. It does seem to rank high in the search result

<rlb>ArneBab: iirc Ludovic changed that within the past "months".

<ArneBab>That feels wrong. I like and use Guix, but Guile and GDB are independent of it.

<ArneBab>Is there some recorded decision with reasoning about it?

<rlb>I recall a bit of discussion, but forget where it was (here?). Perhaps just ping Ludovic when they're back.

<ArneBab>I’ll try

<ArneBab>thank you

<rlb>It *would* be nice if we were able to at least set up redirects for the existing links (no idea if that's feasible, either with respect to link form, or hosting).

<rlb>Guessing it might not be.

<PuercoPop>ArneBab: If the concern is that it gives the impression the projects are part of the guix project, a remainder in the Guix header that the manuals are not affiliated with the GUIX project should be enough. As a user, the GDB manual in the guix doc center is much nicer than the upstream's HTML version

<JohnCowan>old: srfi 158 accumulators use eof-objects so that you can use them to consume generators

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