Re: Derick's SRFI collection & guile

[Ian Price]

Ian Price <address@hidden> writes:

> Now, as I see it we have a few options available here.
>
> 1. Patch guile to also look up srfis using the above convention.
> 2. Absorb (set-difference portable-srfis guiles-srfis) into guile proper
> 3. I change the srfi package hosted on my repo to one that incorporates
> these using the guile convention.

Guile's current behaviour does interfere with trying to package srfi 99.
According to http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-99/srfi-99.html

  All implementations of SRFI 99 must provide the following libraries:

     (srfi :99)                       ; alias for (srfi :99 records)
     (srfi :99 records)               ; composite of the next three
     (srfi :99 records procedural)
     (srfi :99 records inspection)
     (srfi :99 records syntactic)

Currently, guile's behaviour, AIUI, is to just drop the part after the
(srfi :99), which would mean you couldn't just import the last
three. Supporting srfi 99 in its fullness will still require a change in
Guile.


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