Re: New egg: SRFI-111: Boxes

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 12:58:33 -0800 noosphere@mailc.net wrote:

> I've just ported SRFI-111: Boxes, and would like so submit it for publication.
>
> Its documentation is here: [1]
>
> Its release-info is here: [2]
>
> test-new-egg has given it a clean bill of health.
>
> Although there was a "box" egg for Chicken 4, which was listed on the
> "Supported Standards" page as SRFI-111, I chose not to port it to
> Chicken 5 because it used different names for its procedures than were
> used in SRFI-111, and for compatibility reasons I wanted Chicken 5 to
> have completely compliant SRFI-111 support.
>
> So, this SRFI-111 egg is ported directly from the SRFI-111 standard,
> without using any code from the "box" egg, except for some tests.
>
> Also, I should note that the "box" egg is actually much more feature
> rich than SRFI-111, and is a worthy candidate for porting to Chicken 5
> anyway, to give Chicken 5 even more box-related capability.
>
> Finally, on #chicken I asked klovett, the author of the original Chicken
> 4 "box" egg, about porting SRFI-111 and he said it was ok.
>
> [1] - http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/srfi-111
>
> [2] - https://github.com/diamond-lizard/srfi-111/raw/main/release-info

Thanks!  Your egg has been added to the coop.

All the best.
Mario
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