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Hi, One of guile's main selling points is supposed to be that it can handle many languages. Unfortunately, nobody was using the language support, so it bitrotted away. I have removed the bitrot, chiefly due to the change in (eq? #f '()). I also moved the code to a more appropriate (IMHO) module. It's unfortunately not convenient to install yet, as (a) I am a dunce with automake and (b) I don't know where dyn-linked shared modules should go. I have uploaded the tar file to ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/contrib/incoming/guile-lang-allover.tar.gz So, what does it do? It includes a fancier regular expression package (lang rx), a lexer (lang lex), a parser (lang lr1), and a new language, CTAX. This language is implemented by having a custom read function, ctax-read, which returns lists which can be evaled to execute the code. The package also includes modified versions of two files from guile-core which fix bugs in my version (19980424) of the distribution. If they have not yet been fixed, could I ask the maintainers to please do so? I can send patches if that would be better. If anyone is interested in this package, I would be willing to fix it up to the point where ./configure && make will work. More language work would be nice, including: * Save precomputed parse tables saving about 15 minutes (!) every time I run ctax on my 386 * Produce CTAX- which doesn't require a semicolon after every command * Write translators for real languages (MATLAB, TCL, elisp, GDB...) Enjoy... Andrew aarchiba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca