Re: [Chicken-hackers] r7rs modules

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:11:53PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Bex scripsit:
> 
> > This won't work cleanly with native Chicken modules.  For example,
> > (use (scheme base)) will give an error (which would be extensible),
> > but does (use (only x y)) imply loading a module named (ONLY X Y)
> > or does it imply loading X and importing only the Y identifier?
> 
> The latter.  De facto, R7RS library names beginning with "only", "prefix",
> "except", and "rename" are forbidden, so I wouldn't worry about it.
> (That is, you can write them, but you can't import them.)

Now's my turn to go "ugh".  That's *very* unschemely.

Cheers,
Peter
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