[swn] Scheme Weekly News 2004-04-08

Note from the editor...

The W in SWN was always an ideal, not a promise.  I've still been
collecting news items emailed to me since the last edition and they're
presented below. I've not been going out and looking for news, so expect
more "old news" in the next edition.

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so please send news in to the address above!

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Thanks for reading. MJR


Subject: Final SRFI 45: Primitives for Expressing Iterative Lazy Algorithms
X-URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-45/

Scheme Request for Implementation 45
"Primitives for Expressing Iterative Lazy Algorithms"
by Andre van Tonder.
has gone into ``final'' status.


Subject: scsh 0.6.6
X-URL: http://www.scsh.net/

scsh, the Scheme Shell, 0.6.6 adds functionality to support the upcoming
packaging proposal by Michel Schinz and removes code that does not
conform to scsh's BSD-style license. Some bugs have been fixed.


Subject: Preliminary call for Participation: FMCO 2004
X-URL: http://fmco.liacs.nl/fmco04.html

Formal Methods for Components and Objects, Third International Symposium,
2 - 5 November 2004, Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The
Netherlands. Participation  is limited  to about  80  people.


Subject: MzVim 0.500
X-URL: http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/

A patch to the Vim editor to embed the MzScheme interpreter.  Full access
to Vim commands and registers, VimL built-in variables and functions
(so there is no need to execute Vim statements in string literal form);
OS-independent threads; Event-handling mechanism.  Feedback will be
highly appreciated.


Subject: Bigloo 2.6c
X-URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo

Bigloo is "a practical Scheme compiler". This minor release improves
interpreter speed and includes many small bugfixes.


Subject: HtmlPrag version 0.7
X-URL: http://www.neilvandyke.org/htmlprag/

HtmlPrag provides permissive HTML parsing capability to Scheme
programs. Version 0.7 adds (long-overdue) parsing of verbatim elements
like "script".


Subject: CFPapers: 1st European Lisp and Scheme Workshop
X-URL: http://www.cs.uni-bonn.de/~costanza/lisp-ecoop/

Workshop in Oslo, Norway, on 13 June. Submission deadline 5
April. Suggested topics and submission guidelines available now.


Subject: Dot-Scheme 1.0
X-URL: http://www.rivendell.ws/dot-scheme

dot-scheme is a  PLT Scheme bridge to the  Microsoft .NET framework.
To use dot-scheme you need  PLT Scheme v206p1 and v1.1 of the .NET
framework.  Maybe it can be ported to use Mono, too.


Subject: The Scheme Programming Language
X-URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262541483/

Thoroughly updated third edition of this introduction to Scheme and
definitive reference for standard scheme, by R. Kent Dybvig. 7 x 9,
329 pp., 16 illus., paper, ISBN 0-262-54148-3


Subject: PLT Scheme v206p1
X-URL: http://download.plt-scheme.org/

Patch-level release that fixes two v206 bugs: printing scale bug on
Windows NT/2000/XP and updates ProfessorJ. PLT Scheme is a R5RS scheme
implementation with graphical user interface (optional) and a large
library collection.


Subject: Unicode Characters and Strings pre-draft-SRFIs
X-URL: http://regexps.srparish.net/srfi-drafts/INDEX.html

Tom Lord has added two more drafts to his collection about supporting
Unicode in Scheme. He has asked for help with "Unicode Identifiers"
in particular.


Subject: Investigating SXML and SSAX
X-URL: http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-1.html#jan009

<div>IBM's developerWorks runs <a
href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters31.html";>an
article</a> on the Scheme XML representation and the most common library
for handling it. Oleg wasn't aware of this article before it was published
and the author uses Guile, which isn't in the basic SSAX distribution.
Interesting. [31 Oct 2003]</div>

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