00:01:04 -!- HG` [~HG@dslb-188-109-169-172.pools.arcor-ip.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 00:04:14 is "wouldn't've" legitimate? 00:05:13 twice the apostrophes, twice the excitement I say. 00:05:43 heh 00:06:36 so far the only responses on google are yahoo! answers and urbandictionary. not promising. 00:06:47 or at least the first responses. 00:08:49 imran_sr [~imran@75-18-254-4.lightspeed.uncyca.sbcglobal.net] has joined #scheme 00:11:39 -!- ysph [~user@75-143-85-15.dhcp.aubn.al.charter.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 00:16:55 -!- Senjai [~Senjai@unaffiliated/senjai] has quit [Quit: Lost terminal] 00:35:25 I don't see anything wrong with ``wouldn't've'', but I wouldn't use it anywhere that I was trying to be formal 00:37:23 I wouldn't've thought anybody would write that 00:37:37 :-) 00:49:47 -!- elderman [~elderman@AMarseille-152-1-34-246.w81-251.abo.wanadoo.fr] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 00:50:28 Senjai [~Senjai@unaffiliated/senjai] has joined #scheme 00:50:45 elderman [~elderman@AMarseille-152-1-34-246.w81-251.abo.wanadoo.fr] has joined #scheme 00:54:13 kniu [~kniu@DOHOHO.RES.CMU.EDU] has joined #scheme 01:00:20 -!- evhan [~evhan@76-250-39-229.lightspeed.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Quit: leaving] 01:11:56 -!- imran_sr [~imran@75-18-254-4.lightspeed.uncyca.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 01:31:06 ysph [~user@75-143-92-146.dhcp.aubn.al.charter.com] has joined #scheme 01:34:00 doesn't save much over writing "wouldn't have" 01:34:03 -!- drdo [~user@91.205.108.93.rev.vodafone.pt] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 01:34:04 plus it looks funny 01:34:06 so: nix 01:34:39 It more accurately reflects what people say though. 01:35:20 would not've? 01:36:04 I've never seen that before, but it's easily understandable. :-) 01:36:22 And, I have heard people say it like that. 01:40:06 -!- pdelgallego [~pdelgalle@1385159931.dhcp.dbnet.dk] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 01:40:15 -!- samth is now known as samth_away 01:43:09 femtoo [~femto@95-89-249-242-dynip.superkabel.de] has joined #scheme 01:44:47 drdo [~user@91.205.108.93.rev.vodafone.pt] has joined #scheme 01:48:21 fds: so what? 01:48:40 my goal is to communicate clearly, not to render the speaker's every quirk in ultimate detail. 01:48:49 *offby1* grumbles grumpily 01:49:40 I wouldn't describe it as a quirk, I think it's how most people talk. Just like `wouldn't' and `would've'. 01:51:58 pearle [~pearle@blk-224-181-222.eastlink.ca] has joined #scheme 01:56:23 ...Although, we all know that written English doesn't care how people talk. 01:57:34 I guess my point was that I don't use it because I'm too lazy to type ``wouldn't have''. 01:58:37 -!- drdo [~user@91.205.108.93.rev.vodafone.pt] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 01:59:53 drdo [~user@91.205.108.93.rev.vodafone.pt] has joined #scheme 02:08:17 -!- pygospa [~TheRealPy@kiel-5f77b084.pool.mediaWays.net] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 02:08:18 -!- ckrailo [~ckrailo@208.86.167.249] has quit [Quit: Computer has gone to sleep.] 02:08:59 -!- tauntaun [~icarus@64.134.66.60] has quit [Quit: Ex-Chat] 02:10:07 -!- tupi [~david@189.60.162.71] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 02:10:48 -!- femtoo [~femto@95-89-249-242-dynip.superkabel.de] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 02:11:12 pygospa [~TheRealPy@kiel-5f768947.pool.mediaWays.net] has joined #scheme 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timeout: 255 seconds] 15:22:28 spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has joined #scheme 15:30:02 xwl [~user@222.130.120.29] has joined #scheme 15:38:00 skeptical_p [~rononovsk@109.65.184.194] has joined #scheme 15:40:34 does anyone have any advice on running the code from Christian Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces? I found some discussion from IRC and the PLT/racket mailing list, I think that there is a macro-defining-macro used in the Meroonet object system that's not portable, but I can't figure it out 15:42:47 -!- skeptical_p [~rononovsk@109.65.184.194] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 15:45:52 spacemanaki pasted "Makefile from Meroonet" at http://paste.lisp.org/display/120661 15:50:01 jonrafkind [~jon@jonr5.dsl.xmission.com] has joined #scheme 15:50:21 spacemanaki: Isn't that book about Common Lisp? If so, I wouldn't expect it to work in Scheme at all 15:50:27 without major reconstructive surgery 15:50:55 offby1: It's about Lisp in general, but the examples are in Scheme, at least in the first 3 chapters 15:51:22 oh 16:01:58 which Schemes support "define-macro" ? 16:02:05 lots of them 16:03:21 Odaym [~unix@212.36.209.4] has joined #scheme 16:03:25 pdelgallego_ [~pdelgalle@1385159852.dhcp.dbnet.dk] has joined #scheme 16:09:30 -!- pdelgallego_ [~pdelgalle@1385159852.dhcp.dbnet.dk] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 16:28:11 -!- HG` [~HG@dslb-188-109-206-061.pools.arcor-ip.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 16:43:10 -!- paulh [~paulh@3-12-ftth.onsnetstudenten.nl] has quit [Quit: Lost terminal] 16:50:50 -!- spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: spacemanaki] 16:58:54 spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has joined #scheme 17:00:57 lbc [~quassel@0909ds1-sdb.0.fullrate.dk] has joined #scheme 17:01:28 kilimanjaro [~kilimanja@unaffiliated/kilimanjaro] has joined #scheme 17:09:00 -!- lbc [~quassel@0909ds1-sdb.0.fullrate.dk] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 17:11:06 -!- MichaelRaskin [~MichaelRa@195.91.224.225] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 17:13:32 -!- nteon [~nteon@c-98-210-195-105.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 17:20:28 vilsonvieira [~vilson@h08100.ifsc.usp.br] has joined #scheme 17:20:40 MichaelRaskin [~MichaelRa@195.91.224.225] has joined #scheme 17:25:50 dzhus [~sphinx@95-28-76-140.broadband.corbina.ru] has joined #scheme 17:29:18 -!- nilg [~user@77.70.2.229] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 17:32:05 -!- xwl [~user@222.130.120.29] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 17:35:11 -!- acarrico [~acarrico@pppoe-68-142-62-150.gmavt.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 17:36:52 cmatei [~cmatei@95.76.17.75] has joined #scheme 17:45:11 -!- DT`` [~Feeock@net-93-149-57-198.cust.dsl.teletu.it] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 17:48:09 githogori [~githogori@adsl-66-123-22-146.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net] has joined #scheme 17:48:58 acarrico [~acarrico@pppoe-68-142-62-150.gmavt.net] has joined #scheme 17:52:40 yamanu [~yamanu@89.142.205.167] has joined #scheme 17:55:46 blueadept [~blueadept@unaffiliated/blueadept] has joined #scheme 17:56:03 -!- kilimanjaro [~kilimanja@unaffiliated/kilimanjaro] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 17:57:20 DT`` [~Feeock@net-93-149-66-152.cust.dsl.teletu.it] has joined #scheme 18:00:53 HG` [~HG@dslb-188-109-206-061.pools.arcor-ip.net] has joined #scheme 18:03:14 -!- Odaym [~unix@212.36.209.4] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 18:06:33 nilg [~user@77.70.2.229] has joined #scheme 18:39:23 -!- yamanu [~yamanu@89.142.205.167] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 18:42:11 -!- LN^^ is now known as LN^off 18:58:31 would it make an interesting story, by the way, if we built a Higgs-singlet radio; whereupon trolls from the future immediately started communicating with us in subtle falsehoods? 18:58:43 see . 18:58:45 http://tinyurl.com/4ghhojb 18:59:20 klutometis: Cheetoh's are actually quite nutritious. 19:00:12 offby1: heh; that's a good one. or, i though: maybe higgs-singlet trolls would have been responsible for the carbohydrate revolution of the 70s that rendered the states obese. 19:00:49 but why would higgs-singlet trolls want to foster disgenics? because they're trolls? nice. 19:01:25 troll troll jelly roll 19:02:11 that's a nice jingle; you should do advertising, man. 19:07:10 guess who is back to pester you! 19:08:13 when I started my first scheme project, I decided on Guile because it's the GNU implementation and I wanted to write portable code 19:08:27 if I want to do something... practical, did I pick the wrong Scheme? 19:09:23 rdd [~rdd@c83-250-51-60.bredband.comhem.se] has joined #scheme 19:20:52 -!- nilg [~user@77.70.2.229] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 19:20:53 okay, okay, i'll refine my question 19:21:15 what implementation do you suggest that has a good error reporting system and nice extensions? 19:21:41 excluding racket 19:24:09 I suggest that you try several Scheme systems out and write down your impressions -- even if just for you to read later on. 19:24:22 For example, write down why you want to exclude Racket. 19:24:39 i want it to be forwards-compatible with other schemes 19:24:56 i am of the impression that racket is a spin-off of scheme rather than a scheme 19:25:25 i think i'll give chicken a shot next 19:25:37 Racket is better at emulating other Schemes than any other Scheme is. It's no more a spin-off than any other Scheme system is, but it is a better multilingual environment than every other Scheme is. 19:30:28 ijp [~user@host109-154-213-172.range109-154.btcentralplus.com] has joined #scheme 19:31:01 So, if you're worried only about its being a `spin-off', I suggest that you disregard that worry and take another look at Racket. 19:33:23 okay, will do 19:40:34 lbc [~quassel@0909ds1-sdb.0.fullrate.dk] has joined #scheme 19:40:47 nilg [~user@77.70.2.229] has joined #scheme 19:40:57 -!- tauntaun [~icarus@64.134.66.60] has quit [Quit: Ex-Chat] 19:41:56 -!- Caleb-- [thedude@109.64.205.4] has quit [] 19:47:00 -!- HG` [~HG@dslb-188-109-206-061.pools.arcor-ip.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 19:50:42 nteon [~nteon@c-98-210-195-105.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined #scheme 19:51:02 -!- MrFahrenheit [~RageOfTho@users-144-148.vinet.ba] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 19:57:15 osoleve: unless you're writing a library intended to be used with lots of different schemes, I wouldn't obsess about portability; it'll constrict you 19:57:46 -!- augiedoggie [~cpr@unaffiliated/cpr420] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 20:01:26 -!- tarpsocks [~tarpsocks@unaffiliated/tarpsocks] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 20:01:43 -!- vilsonvieira [~vilson@h08100.ifsc.usp.br] has quit [Quit: Saindo] 20:03:53 tarpsocks [~tarpsocks@216.26.125.134] has joined #scheme 20:04:20 -!- tarpsocks is now known as Guest22568 20:09:18 augiedoggie [~cpr@unaffiliated/cpr420] has joined #scheme 20:17:43 paulh [~paulh@3-12-ftth.onsnetstudenten.nl] has joined #scheme 20:18:02 choas [~lars@p578F69A8.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #scheme 20:29:23 -!- peterhil` [~peterhil@a91-153-112-241.elisa-laajakaista.fi] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 20:33:36 jblz [~jake@cpe-204-210-208-155.neo.res.rr.com] has joined #scheme 20:40:05 -!- jblz [~jake@cpe-204-210-208-155.neo.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 20:44:28 -!- pchrist [~spirit@gentoo/developer/pchrist] has quit [Quit: leaving] 20:45:03 pchrist [~spirit@gentoo/developer/pchrist] has joined #scheme 20:47:19 -!- hiyuh [~hiyuh@KD124214245222.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 20:59:17 -!- nilg [~user@77.70.2.229] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 21:04:20 femtooo [~femto@95-89-249-242-dynip.superkabel.de] has joined #scheme 21:07:14 -!- femtoo [~femto@95-89-249-242-dynip.superkabel.de] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 21:07:23 zmv [~daniel@c934a9f5.virtua.com.br] has joined #scheme 21:16:26 -!- MichaelRaskin [~MichaelRa@195.91.224.225] has left #scheme 21:22:59 HG` [~HG@dslb-188-109-206-061.pools.arcor-ip.net] has joined #scheme 21:23:40 -!- dzhus [~sphinx@95-28-76-140.broadband.corbina.ru] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 21:25:04 -!- choas [~lars@p578F69A8.dip.t-dialin.net] has quit [Quit: leaving] 21:26:51 -!- rdd [~rdd@c83-250-51-60.bredband.comhem.se] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 21:31:43 -!- spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: spacemanaki] 21:32:26 -!- jonrafkind [~jon@jonr5.dsl.xmission.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 21:35:03 -!- nteon [~nteon@c-98-210-195-105.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: leaving] 21:35:28 nteon [~nteon@c-98-210-195-105.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined #scheme 21:38:42 Senjai [~Senjai@unaffiliated/senjai] has joined #scheme 21:38:55 chxane [~chxane@c-76-124-17-190.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined #scheme 21:42:20 Euthydemus [~euthydemu@vaxjo7.80.cust.blixtvik.net] has joined #scheme 21:44:31 -!- Euthydemus` [~euthydemu@vaxjo7.80.cust.blixtvik.net] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 21:46:06 meanfish [~bill@76.73.221.195] has joined #scheme 21:48:50 peterhil` [~peterhil@a91-153-112-241.elisa-laajakaista.fi] has joined #scheme 21:53:07 spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has joined #scheme 22:01:06 -!- Nisstyre [~nisstyre@infocalypse-net.info] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 22:02:03 -!- femtooo [~femto@95-89-249-242-dynip.superkabel.de] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 22:15:12 -!- HG` [~HG@dslb-188-109-206-061.pools.arcor-ip.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 22:22:05 zmv_ [~daniel@c934a9f5.virtua.com.br] has joined #scheme 22:24:24 -!- zmv [~daniel@c934a9f5.virtua.com.br] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 22:25:29 In Oleg's IterateeIO, why didn't he make iteratee like the generative function in his 'Searching for the best enumerator' article. Was it because of the language (I don't know Haskell), or did he have a change of heart? 22:37:13 RaceCondition [~erik@82.131.19.252.cable.starman.ee] has joined #scheme 22:38:07 Sorry, I meant I don't know Haskell's culture. I can follow his slide, understand his code somewhat. I know Haskell has no call/cc, but I don't know if it was a reason for not using the generative function. 22:40:46 ijp` [~user@host109-154-194-213.range109-154.btcentralplus.com] has joined #scheme 22:41:23 can I use set-car! and set-cdr! without changing my source file to use #lang r6rs? 22:41:56 I mean, in Racket 22:42:10 or do I need to ask in #racket? 22:42:24 wouldn't hurt. 22:42:38 -!- ijp [~user@host109-154-213-172.range109-154.btcentralplus.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 22:42:49 remember that in #racket, conses are immutable, and set-car! is either not defined at all, or else only works on "mconses", which are a different data type. 22:43:18 yes, I know, but I heard one can import the old behaviour and set-c(ad)r! 22:43:28 I just can't find how 22:43:29 dunno 22:43:30 tauntaun [~icarus@64.134.66.60] has joined #scheme 22:43:36 *offby1* sniffs haughtily 22:43:43 _I_ don't find much need for set-car! and set-cdr! 22:43:51 here, some time ago, somebody told me that Racket is okay for reading SICP 22:44:04 well, it won't run the example code as-is. 22:44:13 I'm sure it requires some fiddling, but I don't know how much. 22:44:14 I don't love using them either, but just for the sake of running examples 22:44:23 Ideally there'd be a #lang SICP, but I don't know if such a thing exists. 22:44:40 but using R5RS, if there's a #lang for that, should be OK. 22:44:40 or just using MIT scheme or Guile 22:44:53 I suspect the authors were using MIT scheme. 22:45:02 Seeing as how the book is derived from lectures given at MIT. 22:46:09 yeah, Racket just seemed more modern 22:46:28 'tis 22:46:32 it's not nice to see that the communities have diverged though 22:46:39 meh 22:52:44 -!- spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: spacemanaki] 22:55:10 offby1: there's #lang planet neil/sicp 22:57:29 yeah, I cited that in #racket 23:08:45 spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has joined #scheme 23:13:19 Caleb-- [thedude@109.64.205.4] has joined #scheme 23:18:04 pytho [181888ef@gateway/web/freenode/ip.24.24.136.239] has joined #scheme 23:20:48 hey guys. does anyone know of a function that will randomly choose an input? random only works with numbers. for ex, something like: (random #\a #\b #\c #\d) => 1/4 chance to get #\a 23:21:00 -!- pytho [181888ef@gateway/web/freenode/ip.24.24.136.239] has quit [Client Quit] 23:21:15 pytho [181888ef@gateway/web/freenode/ip.24.24.136.239] has joined #scheme 23:22:01 skeptical_p [~rononovsk@bzq-79-179-184-149.red.bezeqint.net] has joined #scheme 23:22:17 pytho, (define (pick-random . xs) (list-ref xs (random (length xs)))) 23:24:20 thanks man 23:27:45 MrFahrenheit [~RageOfTho@users-144-148.vinet.ba] has joined #scheme 23:45:51 Nisstyre [~nisstyre@infocalypse-net.info] has joined #scheme 23:52:59 -!- spacemanaki [~spacemana@cpe-68-175-63-237.nyc.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: spacemanaki]