Re: Guile news for the GNU Status Report

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>>> Guile 2.0 is a breakthrough in Guile's history.  First and foremost, it
>>>> is based on a compiler and a virtual machine.  The compiler compiles
>>>> Scheme code to bytecode, applying well-known optimizations.  As a
>>>> result, Scheme code runs noticeably faster with Guile 2.0.  Compilation
>>>> can occur transparently: when the compiled form of a module is not found
>>>> in cache, it is automatically compiled before being run.
>>>
>>> People might assume that this means Guile is now less supporting of
>>> interactive programming than in previous releases.  I think it would be
>>> worth adding a sentence to clarify that this is not the case.  Perhaps
>>> "Note that Guile still supports interactive programming, i.e. modifying
>>> code in running programs, just as extensively as it has in previous
>>> releases."
>>
>> In the meantime I had changed this paragraph to mention the REPL and
>> debugger:
>>
>>   Guile 2.0 is a breakthrough in Guile's history.  First and foremost,
>>   it is based on a compiler and a virtual machine, and comes with a
>>   powerful read-eval-print loop (REPL) and debugger.  The compiler
>>   compiles Scheme code to bytecode, blah blah blah
>>
>> How does this address your concern?
>
> Sorry for the delay...  Yes, that sounds fine now.  The mention of the
> REPL should tend allay any static-ness concerns.

Great.  BTW, this was eventually published here:
<http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/gnustatus-2011-01.html>.

I’ll add a link to it in news.html.

Thanks,
Ludo’.