Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-29.egg (for srfi-19.egg)

[Kon Lovett]

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On Oct 20, 2006, at 2:54 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:13:47 +0200 (CEST), Sven.Hartrumpf wrote:
>
> > > Don't know. The srfi-29.meta (for ver 1.5, the current) needs
> > > 'miscmacros misc-extn lookup-table locale'.
> >
> > I see. It looks like manual installation of single eggs might
> > be too complicated to get it right (at least for me, sorry).
> > But the fully automatic installation (i.e. chicken-setup srfi-19)
> > works perfectly for me.
>
> One minor annoyance when converting from times to dates
> is that one ends up with inexact values from date-year, date-month,
> etc.:
> > (time-utc->date (make-time  'time-utc 0 1161337098))
> #,(date 0 18 38 9 20 10 2006 0 CET #f #f)     ; <-- fine
> > (time-utc->date (current-time))
> #,(date 0 34.0 39.0 9.0 20.0 10.0 2006.0 0 CET #f #f)  <-- not so fine

The just posted srfi-19 egg has the '->fixnum' operation re- 
activated, so '20.0' stored as '20'.

> The reason for this is that srfi-19.scm uses (current-seconds)
> directly. A quick fix would be to replace this by
> (inexact->exact (current-seconds)) but this might become
> problematic looking at the ChangeLog entry for (current-seconds):
>
> 2004-01-12  flw  <address@hidden>
>         - library.scm: `current-seconds' returns a flonum, now  
> [Thanks to Alejandro Forero Cuervo]
>
>
> Greetings
> Sven
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