From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Hierarchical name space Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:01:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87eiiqoojl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k4ssusst.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270683029 16936 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2010 23:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 23:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Julian Graham Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 08 01:30:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzehV-0007NI-HK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:30:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NzehU-0003hY-MJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NzeFS-000103-77 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51112 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NzeFQ-0000z1-6Z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzeFO-0004fR-Cn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:17759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzeFO-0004fJ-7I for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:01:22 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,165,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="48144384" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO nixey) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 08 Apr 2010 01:01:20 +0200 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 19 Germinal an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Julian Graham's message of "Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:42:43 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10162 Archived-At: Hi, Julian Graham writes: >> I'm still inclined to think that the module namespace hierarchy (and it >> is a hierarchy) should not impinge on the environment of an evaluation. >> But, not something we can change right now. > > This is actually causing me some difficulty -- I'm implementing the > R6RS composite library, which imports and then re-exports the bindings > of a lot of the individual R6RS standard libraries. I'm running into > a problem with `(rnrs syntax-case)', which exports `syntax-case'. Unfortunately I don=E2=80=99t think a module names can contain =E2=80=98syn= tax-case=E2=80=99, just like they can=E2=80=99t contain =E2=80=98eval=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98+=E2= =80=99, etc. :-( I can=E2=80=99t think of a work around. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.