Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pika Scheme project announcement

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden>

    > Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    > >     > From: Clark McGrew <address@hidden>

    > >     > This sounds a lot like the direction you were originally taking
    > >     > GUILE. 

    > > It is, in some sense, a "Guile correctional".

    > As a Guile user, I'd be interested in short listing what the
    > fundamental differences between the implementations will be and how
    > much compatibilty you strive at (e.g. wrt existing C Guile extensions,
    > module interface, OOP interface - like GOOPS?).

Mostly my answer is: please join the Pika mailing list

        http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pika-dev

Briefly, 
 
  ~ a "short listing" of "fundamental differences" would be
    impossible.

  ~ compatability with Guile at Scheme or C levels is not a huge
    concern.   Pika will be an R5RS Scheme, and we'll go from there.

  ~ at the same time, it is hard to diverge so far from Guile that 
    either Scheme or C compatability would be impossible or even 
    horribly difficult to achieve.  (Diverging that far is also 
    not a goal.)

-t