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Grigory Shepelev

@fosskers @abcdw Using guile scheme (with guix) for about 1.5 y. now. Didn't ever heard about plists. Thanks for this mention.

18 Sep 2023 at 6:30 | Open on fosstodon.org
Andrew Tropin
Colin

@abcdw Sorry I haven't touched Scheme in a bit. If it has alists I'm assuming it's also part of the culture to use plists (Property Lists) of the form:

(:a 1 :b 2 :c3)

These are common in CL and Elisp at least, and I've always found them simpler than alists.

18 Sep 2023 at 7:32 | Open on emacs.ch
Andrew Tropin

@fosskers Yep, it's possible to use plists in Scheme, but it doesn't solve the problem of lack of destructuring. And the tooling for plists probably is even more lacking.

There are a few pattern matching libs, and one of them maybe can do the job. The built in one doesn't AFAIK. Managing external dependencies in Guile is a pain at the moment.

Want this functionality OOTB 😔
clojure.org/guides/destructuri

18 Sep 2023 at 8:28 | Open on fosstodon.org
Colin

@abcdw I felt the pain of dep management in Guile about a year ago when I was playing with it. While "use Guix" is a solution, it isn't a general one.

18 Sep 2023 at 8:32 | Open on emacs.ch
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