Hello! Christopher Allan Webber <[email protected]> skribis:
> I asked Alex about getting Guile added to the set of > out-of-the-box-supported Scheme implementations for fmt; they replied > that they moved from fmt to a cleaned-up version called Show, but this > and all their libraries were going to R7RS only. (We already have > irregex packaged for Guile in Guix; I imagine this means would affect > that library going forward as well.) > > I'm not really sure what this means for us, since I think we don't > really have full R7RS support. I wonder what this means for us moving > into the future, as more libraries move to support R7RS(-small, maybe > -large)? Will we include a conversion layer, or maybe another language > layer on the VM? Will we move to more support of R7RS-small out of the > box? Will we not make this a priority altogether? Will it depend on > people stepping forward, or is there a strong maintainer position either > way? I think it would be interesting to see what’s missing to use a specific library like Show. I suspect it’s “not much”, but probably that means we’ll have to provide additional compatibility shims. Ludo’.
