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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ideas for making Guile easier to approach
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:01:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y22jujfp.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leyja69x.fsf@ngyro.com>


Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> writes:

> I remembered that the R7RS Large process was giving library names to
> SRFIs, but it looks like many of them now have a “library name” field in
> their metadata.  For instance, see <https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-2/>,
> which says “library name: and-let*”.  Unfortunately, there are conflicts
> (for example, 43 and 133 are both called “vectors”), so we might not be
> able to take their names whole cloth.

Optionally, the SRFI number could be appended to disambiguate:

  vectors:43
  vectors:133

As a user I would find this less confusing than the plain numbers.

-- 
Ricardo



  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-10 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-08 12:19 Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix Blake Shaw
2022-02-08 19:46 ` Chris Vine
2022-02-09 15:18   ` Ideas for making Guile easier to approach Christine Lemmer-Webber
2022-02-09 20:33     ` Daniel Tornabene
2022-02-09 21:05     ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-09 23:06       ` Keith Wright
2022-02-09 21:05     ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2022-02-09 21:07     ` Maxime Devos
2023-10-05 14:15       ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-02-09 23:01     ` Chris Vine
2022-02-10  0:56     ` Timothy Sample
2022-02-10 10:01       ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2022-02-10  1:32     ` Blake Shaw
2022-02-10  2:02     ` paul
2022-02-10 11:27     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2022-02-10 14:34       ` Leo Butler
2022-02-10 15:58         ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2022-02-10 18:25         ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-09-27 19:29     ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2023-09-28 12:30       ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-09  6:28 ` Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix Catonano

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