Re: r6rs libraries

[Julian Graham]

Hi Rotty,

> All R6RS implementations I'm somewhat familiar with (Ikarus, PLT,
> Ypsilon) do some kind of name mangling when library names contain
> "special" characters; e.g. (srfi :6 and-let*) maps to
> "srfi/%3a2/and-let%2a.sls", at least for Ikarus (%-escaped hex of the
> utf-8 encoding, IIRC).

Hey, wait, I'm dumb -- why does :6 map to UTF-8 0x3A2?

On a sort of related note, though, I was experimenting with acceptable
symbol characters / filenames, and .6 seems to work as either.  Any
reason Guile couldn't map the R6RS library reference (a b c (1 2 3))
to Guile module (a b .1 .2 .3 c)?


Regards,
Julian





>
> Nice to see Guile is on the way to R6RS interoperability!
>
> Regards, Rotty
>