Review? (Fuzzy String example code)

["Kyle R. Burton" <kyle.burton@gmail.com>]

Anyone willing to help me out? I'm looking for, in general, a second
(or n-th) pair of eyes for the code for the Fuzzy String talk.  Most
of it is Scheme (Chicken), a smaller bit is C.

What I'm looking for is standard code review style feedback.  To find
things like: glaring mistakes; non-idiomatic-ness; comments on the
readability / ease of understanding; or any other suggestions you may
have wrt the talk.  I don't plan on using most of this during the
talk, but it may come up when doing some examples.

To run the code you'll need chicken installed:
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/, and several 'eggs',
which you can install using chicken-setup: levenshtein, metaphone,
regex-literals.  The code will bitch at you for any that I'm
forgetting.  There are a couple of shell scripts for running various
parts of the source tree that will hopefully make sense if you decide
to try it out.  There is 1 hard-coded path in src/chicken/find.scm to
the lnames.txt file which I haven't parameterized yet.

This was a lot easier on Linux than it was on OS X.  On OS X (using
port), I had to install gmp (for the numbers egg, I had already had it
under Linux), then do

  chicken-setup -csc-option "-L/opt/local/lib -I/opt/local/include" numbers

to get the numbers egg to install.  Also, I had to make a change to
the textBrew/Makefile - change .so to .dylib, and -shared to -dylib
for the CC option.  Hrm..maybe all this should go into a readme.

I'm still working on the slides.

The slides and code can be gotten here:

  http://asymmetrical-view.com/talks/fuzzy-string.tar.gz
  http://asymmetrical-view.com/talks/fuzzy-string/


Thanks,


Kyle