Let's say I am writing an extension and I have some common code I want available to all the .scm files in the extension, but not visible to the user. Since these functions are internal, I similarly may not want them visible to -every- .scm file in the extension. And it is possible that other extensions will also want to use this common code, without polluting the user's namespace.
For example, the SSAX and SXML code at ssax.sf.net is broken down into many different scheme files, many of which use each other's code. And there are some utility functions used by both, even though the extensions are "separate". However, the user does not need to see many of these functions. As far as I can tell, I can keep them hidden by duplicating the object code [ (include) the common file ], or just make it available to everyone [ (require) it ]. But I cannot make this code available selectively; and I can't (declare (hide ...)) the internal functions, because they won't be visible to anyone then. Basically, I want to confirm I cannot restrict the visibility of things exported from an extension, or selectively import them. This would require me to make things much less granular (i.e. combine .scm files together) to avoid including too much duplicate code. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
