From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aibo.runbox.com (aibo.runbox.com [91.220.196.211]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1935C3846405 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2021 19:25:29 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 1935C3846405 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=bothner.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=per@bothner.com Received: from [10.9.9.73] (helo=submission02.runbox) by mailtransmit03.runbox with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kvQ3D-0005Lp-Bt for kawa@sourceware.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:25:27 +0100 Received: by submission02.runbox with esmtpsa [Authenticated alias (524175)] (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) id 1kvQ2t-0007z3-MC for kawa@sourceware.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:25:08 +0100 Subject: Re: SLIB (full/general) in Kawa? To: kawa@sourceware.org References: <31129.1609527007@localhost> From: Per Bothner Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 11:25:04 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <31129.1609527007@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_SHORT, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: kawa@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Kawa mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:25:32 -0000 On 1/1/21 10:50 AM, Sudarshan S Chawathe wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions for getting SLIB working in Kawa? > > I mean the full/general SLIB distribution, not only the few parts that > are already in Kawa. When I try to include SLIB's kawa.init file, I get > errors that seem related to the use of colons in SLIB identifiers. In > particular, I thought I'd check if someone had SLIB running before > getting in too deep. (I'm also not sure if it is possible to "escape" a > colon to at least enable a very hackish "search and replace" kind of > workaround by modifying a local copy of the SLIB sources.) One possibility is to use the --r7rs command-line option: https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Options.html#Options-for-language-selection You can escape a colon either by surrounding it with vertical bars, or by prefixing it with a backslash (both methods come from Common Lisp): '|ab:cd| (or 'ab|:|cd) or 'ab\:cd > I'll also take the occasion to say a heartfelt thanks and best wishes > for the new year to all of the Kawa community. Thank you! -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/