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Re: Will guile ever have (or care about having) users?
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- Subject: Re: Will guile ever have (or care about having) users?
- From: Westley A Sherman <wsherman at umich dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:51:27 -0400 (EDT)
I used Guile as an interactive extension language in a small molecular
graphics program I wrote. I provided a window where one could edit and
evaluate small scheme programs. There were probably better ways of doing
things but I ended up writing the text editor / REPL type stuff by hand.
Although I think it's crucially important for the core of Guile to stay
small and portable it would have made things a lot easier if there were a
standard interface with facilities for doing that kind of thing.
One could have, for example, functions like:
ghX_create_REPL_window()
ghX_process_REPL_window_event()
ghX_close_REPL_window()
to create and manage a window that had a simple text editor and facilities
for evaluating Guile expressions.
Westley