Re: Creating modules from C

[Dirk Herrmann]

On 15 May 2001, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Thus, what I meant to say (but failed to) was:  We should consider to
> > provide renaming exports.  There is a drawback:  aliasing (which always
> > reduces optimization potential for compilers), but, hey:  We want renaming
> > imports anyway, so what?
> 
> Yes, but's a discussion for the module system in general, not for the
> C interface.  I want to concentrate on the C interface here.  The C
> interface should be a reasonable copy of the high-level Scheme
> interface to modules.

But, your suggested C level way of exporting bindings does not allow
renamings.  That's the reason I brought the issue up.

Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann