Re: Planning work

[Michael Livshin]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I would really like to play around with that, even if some hacking is
> > required to make it run with CVS Guile.  Could you make it available?
> 
> Sure.  I may not have time to clean it up and commit it to CVS
> (presuming that after looking at what I did it ought to be committed
> to CVS) for a little while, but perhaps in the next week or so.  If
> you need it sooner, just holler and I'll hurry up :>

what is the status of Hobbit wrt the FSF?  (i.e. did the original
author(s) perform the paper-signing dance)?

I'd absolutely *love* to have this thing in the Guile core -- that
would mean no more headache about the startup time.  we could
pre-compile GOOPS & syntax-case, for example.

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