SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? hga@xxxxxx (15 Sep 2020 13:40 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? John Cowan (15 Sep 2020 15:57 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 16:36 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 16:41 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? hga@xxxxxx (15 Sep 2020 17:07 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 17:16 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? John Cowan (15 Sep 2020 17:17 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? hga@xxxxxx (15 Sep 2020 19:02 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 19:31 UTC)
A Lisp programmer walks into a room Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 19:42 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room Arthur A. Gleckler (15 Sep 2020 20:53 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (15 Sep 2020 20:58 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room John Cowan (15 Sep 2020 21:12 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 21:40 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 21:53 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room Arthur A. Gleckler (15 Sep 2020 22:15 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room Lassi Kortela (15 Sep 2020 22:44 UTC)
Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room hga@xxxxxx (15 Sep 2020 21:54 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? hga@xxxxxx (15 Sep 2020 21:27 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? Arthur A. Gleckler (15 Sep 2020 22:13 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? hga@xxxxxx (15 Sep 2020 22:29 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? Arthur A. Gleckler (15 Sep 2020 22:33 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? hga@xxxxxx (15 Sep 2020 22:40 UTC)
Testing root-only features Lassi Kortela (16 Sep 2020 07:28 UTC)
Re: Testing root-only features Lassi Kortela (16 Sep 2020 07:31 UTC)
Re: Testing root-only features hga@xxxxxx (16 Sep 2020 11:04 UTC)
Re: SRFI 170 file-space -> filesystem-space ?? John Cowan (15 Sep 2020 20:01 UTC)

Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room hga@xxxxxx 15 Sep 2020 21:54 UTC

> From: Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io>
> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 4:40 PM
>
> [...]
>
>> :) That's one more than in R7RS, which has just file-error? and
>> read-error?
>
> We should make a little Scheme implementation some time for laughs that
> only has one-word error messages. That also calls to mind Steele's
> Growing a Language lecture. Perhaps the Scheme could have compound
> conditions where each simple condition is one English word.

A well thought out version of this could be good for embedded work,
for systems that can afford a bit more than a number or two, but not
full, long error messages.

- Harold