Re: r6rs libraries

[Julian Graham]

> Hmm, yes, but how about `foo/bar/baz-6.scm'?  Is there a reason to
> reject it?

Well, the part of an R6RS library name that comes before its version
is only restricted in that that it must be an identifier -- so a
system that relied on filenames to locate libraries could have trouble
determining whether a file called ice-9-9.scm contained a library
named `(ice-9 (9))' or one named `(ice (9 9))'.

And this also doesn't address the problem of doing version matching as
part of hybrid module / library load process.  After all, I don't
think there are any restrictions in R6RS on where libraries need to be
stored or how they can be located / loaded, so one thing we could do
is ditch the idea that version needs to go into the filename.  Guile
could require that all installed versions of a particular library
would have to reside in the same file, the name of which would be
constructed of the non-version parts of the library name:

foo/bar/baz.scm would contain the code for:

`(foo bar baz (6))'
`(foo bar baz (6 1))'

and

`(foo bar baz (7))'

Using the module system to load that file, a la `(use-modules (foo bar
baz))' would cause, via a hook in the body of that file, all the
library expressions in that file to be stored in a data structure
accessible by the library system for the purposes of subsequent import
and expansion.


Regards,
Julian