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My Guile Wishlist
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Evan Prodromou |
Subject: |
My Guile Wishlist |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:13:49 -0600 |
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So, while I've been thinking about Guile, I've been considering some
of the things that I wish were part of the system that aren't. Because
they're on my mind right now, I figure I'll post them.
1. I wish there weren't so much detritus in the Scheme interface that
Guile provides.
2. I wish that there was One Good Way To Do It, and that other ways
were optionally loadable with a module for compatibility.
3. I wish that when I loaded Guile, I could get a system with only
R5RS Scheme + modules support, until I started loading stuff. I
wish that anything in Guile that was an enhancement to Scheme had
to be loaded with (use-modules).
4. I wish that I could do this:
#! /usr/bin/env guile
!#
5. I wish I could figure out the scm_ interface.
6. I wish that I could add Guile to existing programs, like Apache,
with those programs' loadable module systems, without having to
modify the program's "main" function.
7. I really, really wish there was a mod_guile. Did I mention that
already?
8. I wish that GUMM was up and working.
9. I wish that Guile was so good that GNU projects wouldn't even
think about using any other scripting/extension language.
10. I wish that there was a project library with everything under the
sun that you could want in it.
11. I wish that starting-off Guile programmers felt a little
disappointed because it was too easy.
12. I wish that when I went through the documentation for Guile, I
would be constantly amazed at the elegance and utility of the
design, rather than thinking, "What the hell is a low-level object
interface, why do none of the functions have reasonable
documentation, and why the hell would I ever use this?" or, "Who
cares what Aubrey Jaffer did in 1993?"
So, let me re-iterate: I love Guile. I use it all the time. But these
things would make me happier than I am now.
~ESP
--
Evan Prodromou
address@hidden
- My Guile Wishlist,
Evan Prodromou <=
- Re: My Guile Wishlist, Rob Browning, 2002/03/19
- Re: My Guile Wishlist, Neil Jerram, 2002/03/19
- Re: My Guile Wishlist, Neil Jerram, 2002/03/19
- Re: My Guile Wishlist, MJ Ray, 2002/03/19
- Re: My Guile Wishlist, Evan Prodromou, 2002/03/22