Hi! "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Panicz Maciej Godek > <godek.mac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> 2016-10-12 20:21 GMT+02:00 Thompson, David <dthomps...@worcester.edu>: >>> >>> >>> My understanding is that these symbols have been part of the default >>> environment for so long that a lot of code would break if they were >>> removed, so they will be staying for the foreseeable future. >>> >> >> On the other hand, the fix would usually be trivial (just one use-modules >> clause), and besides I don't think that Guile has ever had a tradition of >> worrying too much about backwards compatibility. > > The Guile maintainers care very much about backwards compatibility, > from what I've seen over the last few years. I think I asked the same question as Panicz when I started using Guile ca. 2004. The situation of global bindings hasn’t changed since then, and that’s for compatibility reasons that I very much appreciate as a user. Ludo’.
