David A. Wheeler scripsit: > John: I take it that prefixed "%" is a universally-portable indicator > we can use for "internal" names?
Using % in identifiers is acceptable to all the Schemes I test. It's pretty acceptable to Schemers, too. > > Adapting it to X Scheme's notion of a module should be left to X > > Scheme experts. > > The notion that you have to be an "X Scheme expert" to merely define > or use a module is absurdly broken. I should probably have said "X Scheme users". > Here's to hoping that R7RS library module notation gets universally > implemented, and quickly, so that such nonsense can go to the dustbin > of history. Well, we can hope, but it isn't very likely. Mostly, new Scheme standards are like new scientific theories: the old crowd has to die off before they are accepted. :-) > How about cond-expands at the beginning to handle much of the > shimming, As of the last time I looked, cond-expand wasn't supported by Racket, Scheme48/scsh, Larceny, Ypsilon, S7, or Sizzle. -- He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that co...@ccil.org hardly nobody could get there and most of http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the leaders would stay home and let him go --H.L. Mencken's to work and do things as he pleased. Declaration of Independence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
