On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> The Lisp/Scheme idea, expressed loosely, that "code is data"
> argues for making it easy for programs to comprehend Scheme code,
Existing tools already comprehend identifiers. For example, I think
it would be easier for existing tools, such as PLT's check-syntax
tool that shows lexical bindings of identifiers, to show the
relevant arrow if I could write this.
(library r6rs.base
----)
(let ()
(local-import r6rs.base)
----)
> and single
> identifiers synthesized from compound values undermine that ability.
> ... the definitions of
> synthesized identifiers, and the fact that they are synthesized, are not
> readily detected by a program processing the source code.
I never advocated synthesized identifiers for library names. In the
above example, the identifier is quite explicitly present in the
source code and can be detected by current tools.
Cheers
Andre
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