Re: [Chicken-users] New string manipulation module

[Dan Leslie]

Nice work, contributions are greatly appreciated. :)

Since you're asking for constructive feedback, two things come to mind:

It's a matter of taste, but IMHO it's schemier that descriptive-variable is preferable to desc-var, so in your case s-foo could easily be string-foo. However, I would drop the prefix altogether, as Chicken supports renaming on import. So string-foo would become foo and any prefixing is left up to the user of your library.

I'm not certain what you intended by 'official', but if you meant that you'd like to see it packaged with Chicken then perhaps you should consider switching the license to Chicken's license. Mind you, GPL3 eggs are happily accepted, but note that many folks won't touch them for various reasons. However, if this is a port of an elisp library then likely re-licensing is not an option.

Anyhow, thanks for the hard work and the contribution! And welcome to Chicken-land, come join us on IRC if you get a chance.

Thanks,
-Dan

On 2/20/2013 9:36 AM, Nicholas Van Horn wrote:

I'm new to Chicken (and scheme for that matter), but I'm eager to contribute. I've been working on several text processing projects for which I've ported an Emacs-lisp string manipulation library to Chicken.

The "strings" module provides many convenient string manipulation procedures (including new procedures not ported from the original elisp library). Each procedure is documented with examples. Beyond their immediate convenience, (I think) they present the user with a consistent API for working with strings.

I am eager to share this as an "official" egg, but being new to scheme I have likely violated common practices. I share the preliminary module here in the hopes that someone will find it useful. I welcome any feedback with respect to changes in implementation/behavior, as well as missing functionality that you would like to see added.

The module is packaged to be distributed as an egg, but it is currently only available at:

https://github.com/n3mo/strings

Thanks,
Nicholas Van Horn

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