Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove ##sys# prefix from lambda-info names of library procedures

[Christian Kellermann]

Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:

> From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove ##sys# prefix from lambda-info 
> names of library procedures
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:24:59 +0200
>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:20:16AM -0700, Evan Hanson wrote:
>>> On 2014-07-23 10:06, Peter Bex wrote:
>>> > This change doesn't make much sense to me unless we also deprecate
>>> > the ##sys#-prefixed versions.  ##sys#error sounds more "internal" or
>>> > "primitive" than "error", so (to me) it makes more sense to have
>>> > error be an alias of ##sys#error, instead of the other way around.
>>> 
>>> I don't think we should deprecate the prefixed versions -- this is just
>>> intended to make e.g. REPL results print more cleanly, and to make e.g.
>>> introspection slightly nicer when querying `procedure-information`. The
>>> result is the same from core's point of view, but the user gets a
>>> cleaner experience.
>> 
>> Thanks for providing a motivation for this change.  That makes sense
>> indeed.  Any objections from other chicken hackers?
>
> No, this makes sense.

I have pushed this patch. Thank you!