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: Why Ice-9? Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87k4p3bevw.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278771450 18901 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2010 14:17:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:17:30 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 10 16:17:29 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 1OXarv-0000wK-SS for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXarv-0000AF-9w for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46356 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXarq-0000A8-9d for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXarp-0005BY-8H for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXarp-0005BT-2M for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXark-0000tT-Ob for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from acces.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by acces.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acces.bordeaux.inria.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 22 Messidor 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 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F1ysxX0VwMmokpCrgwTkTwM0nMc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:10641 Archived-At: Hello, Andy Wingo writes: > Now, there is a deeper issue here -- a global Scheme namespace is > starting to emerge, and Guile is a bit all over the map. To me it's fine > to have e.g. statprof have the toplevel module, (statprof), even though > it's part of Guile; but in a way I feel that instead of having ice-9 and > system, we should just have (guile) as our module prefix, in the same > way that e.g. ikarus and chez scheme have (ikarus ...) and (chezscheme > ...), respectively. OTOH, ‘ice-9’ is unlikely to ever collide with anything else, so it’s roughly equivalent to ‘guile’, just a little bit more obscure. :-) ‘system’ may be more risky in that respect. ‘guile’ would have been a better choice, but I’m afraid it’s too late (in theory it isn’t, but...). Thoughts? Thanks, Ludo’.