Re: [Chicken-users] Egg svn request: caketext

[Felix Winkelmann]

From: Robin Lee Powell <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Egg svn request: caketext
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:10:35 -0700

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:17:08AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >  caketext is a work-alike port of the Perl module
> > >  Locale::Maketext (see
> > >  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod)
> > >  to Chicken Scheme.  I haven't made any real-world use of it,
> > >  but I certainly intend to, and it's been tested thoroughly.
> > 
> > Note that it would be relatively easy to add a hook to the
> > compiler that allows re-writing all literal strings in a compiled
> > program.
> > 
> > If you would find something like that useful, just say so.
> 
> Huh.  I'm honestly not sure.  A possible problem is that which
> language I'm going to be writing to will be selected at run-time,
> not compile time.
> 

Right, but you code use the hook to translate all literals with
strings in them via a procedure at runtime.


cheers,
felix