From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric E Moore Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: :export vs. define-public Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 17:25:47 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87sn0o1jzo.fsf@dyn006239.shef.ac.uk> References: <200209050041.RAA18955@morrowfield.regexps.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031243128 19134 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2002 16:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mzRf-0004yQ-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:25:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mzTH-0000ks-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mzSd-0000j0-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mzS6-0000cP-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from dyn006239.shef.ac.uk ([143.167.6.239]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mzS5-0000bz-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: by dyn006239.shef.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A56826DF1; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:25:49 +0100 (BST) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200209050041.RAA18955@morrowfield.regexps.com> (Tom Lord's message of "Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:41:20 -0700 (PDT)") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1305 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1305 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tom Lord writes: > Those two approaches (:export vs. define-public) to public v. private > module contours are isomorphic, so what's the big deal? :export makes it considerably easier to port scheme code across multiple implememntations, since the code to deal with the module systems, which are regrettably non-standard, can be kept separate from the R5RS code. If scheme had an official module system, it might not need :export. 'till guile has a good compiler, I'd like to see it possible to port code easily. (I suppose one could write a define-public macro for schemes that lack one, but it's still nice to have :export) =2D-=20 Eric E. Moore --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE9d4WN40OczkogoRERAjJdAJQIpFbSdyUN07Klgrg7APsccvGOAJ9uyEww j2P7eUFWSb2BpBD/b8U7oQ== =hS2/ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --=-=-=-- _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel