[guile-reader-devel] [ANN] Guile-Reader 0.5

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Version 0.5 of Guile-Reader for Guile 1.8.x is now available.  This is a
maintenance release with small build fixes---thus, I decided to not
bother sending an announcement to `guile-user'.

  http://dl.sv.nongnu.org/releases/guile-reader/guile-reader-0.5.tar.gz
  http://dl.sv.nongnu.org/releases/guile-reader/guile-reader-0.5.tar.gz.sig

The SHA1 sums for these two files are:

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  8cda43cda787933537eb1e4a095cecc6cd6bedbb  guile-reader-0.5.tar.gz.sig

Documentation is available at:

  http://www.nongnu.org/guile-reader/

Guile-Reader is a reader creation framework for Guile.  It can be
thought of as an alternative to Guile's built-in reader.  The purpose of
Guile-Reader is to allow for the creation of readers for different
variants of the Scheme/Lisp syntax.  Its design allows the re-use and
composition of various parts of a lexer called "token readers".  It
comes with a library of re-usable token readers that can be used to
build a Scheme reader with various extensions.  For instance, syntax
extensions for DSSSL keywords, SRFI-30 block comments, SRFI-62 S-exp
comments and R6RS square-bracket S-exps are provided and readily usable
through the `make-alternate-guile-reader' procedure.

Additionally, Guile-Reader aims to improve on Guile's reader sub-system
by allowing for the coexistence of several, potentially incompatible,
readers within a single Guile program.  In particular, it provides a
"confinement" mechanism that confines changes made via `read-set!' and
`read-hash-extend' to the calling module.

New in Guile-Reader 0.5

  * Bugs fixed

    * Fix & improve detection of GNU lightning at configure time
    * Various build improvements


Ludovic.