From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: r6rs standard libraries Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:54:58 +0000 Message-ID: <87ljfh7v4d.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <2bc5f8211001240953h4959cb2ar3540be3d464fdaa2@mail.gmail.com> <87aaw2jdbq.fsf@gnu.org> <87iqapq6h2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264715838 17546 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2010 21:57:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 28 22:57:15 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 1NacMV-00058S-9A for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:57:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NacMP-00016D-FJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NacKq-0000nF-CW for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NacKl-0000lq-1G for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:55:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37181 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NacKk-0000lj-Rj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:55:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:39700) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NacKf-0007qr-Lp; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-183-226-102.range86-183.btcentralplus.com [86.183.226.102]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8B31F6A0D; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:55:20 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF0238024; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:54:59 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:35:35 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:9947 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Rereading my mail I have to apologize for the "hard sell". I do think > `library' and `import' in the default namespace is the right thing, > though. FWIW, I agree that this `out of the box' support for R6RS libraries is pretty cool. And as you say, 2 identifiers is not very many. There's plenty other stuff in boot-9 that's less important, and which I can imagine us moving into a module, and telling people `now you have to add a (use-modules (ice-9 so-and-so))', or maybe use autoload. Neil