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1 point by starc 6141 days ago | link | parent | on: patch to fix (date) on linux

Thanks, that's much better than calling system.

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2 points by rcoder 6141 days ago | link

Agreed, though what I'd really like is a full time/date stack built in Arc...using the MzScheme primitives is pretty ugly for a supposedly "bootstrapped" language.

There are enough other areas where Arc is coupled to the underlying Scheme runtime, though, that it's probably not worth worrying about at this point.

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1 point by starc 6141 days ago | link | parent | on: where does Unicode break?

That's a very good question. I suspect the answer may vary from version to version of mzscheme.

To those asking for explicit Unicode support: why not write a test suite for Unicode? Then we will all know what works, and what doesn't.

People are already publishing patches for arc. If potential developers knew about Unicode issues, it would give them a place to get started.

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The rem function uses recursion internally (see arc.arc), so I'd say that it's something you'll get used to.

It's also worth knowing that you can use subseq as a substring function:

  arc> (let val "foox" (subseq val 0 (- (len val) 1)))
  "foo"

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4 points by starc 6141 days ago | link | parent | on: MzScheme v360 seems to work

That isn't caused by v360: see http://arclanguage.org/item?id=155 for a patch

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1 point by lojic 6141 days ago | link

Thanks, that did the trick. Now if the "hello, world" web app produced valid html, I'd be happy :)

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1 point by bootload 6141 days ago | link

"... that isn't caused by v360: see http://arclanguage.org/item?id=155 for a patch ..."

Starc I can confirm this patch does the job. Thanks.

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Likely you already know this, but for others... http://arclanguage.org/formatdoc explains the supported formatting.

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