Re: [Chicken-hackers] r7rs modules

[Alex Shinn]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:54 AM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

Felix scripsit:

> I repeat my suggestion of ".". It is not too annoying to look at,
> unobtrusive, has low visual impact, doesn't look too stupid when used
> in non-r7rs code and doesn't need to be escaped. It's perfect! Don't
> you think so? Boy, I love that little period. I think its day has come!

It does need to be escaped, since (foo.bar baz) is a valid R7RS library
name.  But escaping by doubling, as I addressed for _, should be fine,
transforming the above into foo..bar.baz.  (If you mean "doesn't need
to be escaped in the shell," that's true.)

Another advantage is that it's culturally compatible with the Chibi
equivalent of -R, which is -m.  You can write -m'(chibi io)' if you want,
but -mchibi.io also works and is a lot easier to type.

So (1+ dot).

Actually, -m'(chibi io)' doesn't even work.  -mchibi.io just expands to

-e '(import (chibi io))'.

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Alex