Re: [Chicken-users] Fwd: Newbie question - Converting SKILL/Scheme to C.

[Nicholas \"Indy\" Ray]

Sorry, But I don't think the HTML was the major problem with the email.

First of all it's not clear what you are trying to do.

Second of all without any code to see what's generating you're errors
it's hard to diagnose.

Also things like

"(() if (opptapObj->tap == "None" then return (nil) else return (t)))"

and

"/* comment
and more comment
end of comment */"

and

"prefix = substring(dev 1 2)"

Looks nothing like Scheme code, much more like C code. Are you sure
the code is Scheme at all??
Additionally this isn't exactally a good mailing list for converting
code from SKILL to C as this is a Chicken Scheme mailing list, and
unless Chicken is some how involved, neither C or Skill seems to
apply.

Indy

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Yaron Kretchmer<address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's a resend with no HTML :P
> ------------------------------- begin
> resend-------------------------------------
>
> Hi All.
> Just joined the group, so forgive my newbie questions :)
>
> I have some legacy code written in SKILL (a variant of Scheme) which
> I'm trying to convert to C.
>
> I tried compiling the code , and got several different error message,
> and was wondering whether somebody could suggest a solution  for each
> :
>
> =======================begin 
> problems==========================================
> Problem 1 - substring
> *) The code uses the "substring" function which the compiler seems to
> have a problem with. So lines like
> prefix = substring(dev 1 2)
> create compiler error message like
> Syntax error: illegal atomic form
>
>        ()
>
>        Expansion history:
> ...
>        <syntax>                (dev 1 2)       <--
>
> problem 2 - multi-line comments
> *) The compiler doesn't recognize multi-line comments
> /* comment
> and more comment
> end of comment */
>
> problem 3 - Unknown object methods
> *) The code refers to object methods/properties  through the use of
> the "->" operator. The compiler doesn't like.
>  prog( ()
>    if( opptapObj->tap == "None" then return(nil) else return(t))
>  ) ;prog
>
>  generates error
> Syntax error: illegal atomic form
>
>        ()
>
>        Expansion history:
>
>        ...
>        <syntax>                (() if (opptapObj->tap == "None" then
> return (nil) else return (t)))    <--
> ==================End problems===============================================
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Yaron
>
>
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