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From: | Lassi Kortela |
Subject: | Conditional include |
Date: | Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:16:04 +0300 |
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Lassi: The fact that different Schemes have different conventions for where their library files are is actually a great convenience to me when developing SRFIs. All the actual code goes into files named *-impl.scm (or multiple names if there are multiple files). Then each library file or equivalent, which is where the differences are concentrated, is in an implementation-specific place. The library file for (foo bar) will be at:Chibi: foo/bar.sld Chicken: foo.bar.scm Guile: foo/bar.scm Ypsilon: foo/bar.sls, or foo/bar.ypsilon.sls if it is Ypsilon-specific And since each of these needs to be slightly different, that's a Good Thing.
This is suboptimal: the meaning is obscured, and things work by accident since you have only 4 Schemes and all of them happen to use different naming conventions. If you add more Schemes, some of them will eventually clash.
R6RS implementations have a convention of appending the implementation's name to the filename. For example, <https://github.com/arcfide/chez-srfi/tree/master/%253a39> has the files:
parameters.sls ; Portable version of the code. parameters.chezscheme.sls parameters.ikarus.sls parameters.ironscheme.sls parameters.mzscheme.sls parameters.ypsilon.sls This is clearer and more likely to avoid clashes. Best of all is the R7RS solution: (define-library (foo) (cond-expand (chicken (include "foo.chicken.scm"))))
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