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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (define-module (foo) #:import (...)), a la r6rs
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:44:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3aucfen.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lipiw43g.fsf@inria.fr> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:28:51 +0100")

On Sun 08 Jan 2012 17:28, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:
>
>>   #:use-module ((a) #:select (b c d))
>>   #:use-module ((e) #:renamer (symbol-prefix-proc 'p:))
>>
>> vs
>>
>>   (import (only (a) b c d)
>>           (prefix (e) p:))
>
> Sounds a bit like kill/yank vs. copy/paste.  ;-)

Heh, indeed ;-)

> I’m happy with the current form and have a harder time parsing ‘import’,
> but I can understand some may prefer ‘import’, in particular anyone who
> comes to Guile with an R6RS background.
>
> So if you think it's this worthwhile, go for it!

OK, thanks for the feedback.  Next time I get bothered by this I'll
propose a concrete patch.

Cheers,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-08 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28 10:37 (define-module (foo) #:import (...)), a la r6rs Andy Wingo
2011-07-28 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-11-09 23:08   ` Andy Wingo
2011-11-09 23:50     ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-12-06 11:30       ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-07  0:23         ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-08 16:28         ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-01-08 16:44           ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-11-10 12:35     ` David Pirotte
2011-07-28 21:40 ` Mike Gran
2011-07-28 21:52 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz

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