Personally, I prefer srfi. But sometimes I mix with RnRS. I think it's better to avoid Guile specific things, however, Guile provides many good things that the standard doesn't have.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:56 PM Zelphir Kaltstahl < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Guile Users! > > I have a question regarding usage of SRFIs in Guile code. > > Sometimes there are core functions, which are also available from an > SRFI implementation. One example I am currently dealing with are bitwise > operations for integer numbers. There is SRFI 60 and there are the core > functions like logand, logior and so on. > > Usually I tend to think, that using the SRFI implementation in such > situation is better, as it is an implementation of a common interface, > which other Schemes might also have implemented. Using that makes code > more portable to other Schemes. However, I want to be sure, that this is > a good way of thinking about it. Are there ever arguments against using > an SRFI implementation, when an SRFI implementation provides what I need? > > Another example are structs. I usually use SRFI 9 to make some structs, > instead of the core record or struct type. > > What do you think? > > Best regards, > > Zelphir > > >
