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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove ##sys# prefix from lambda-info name


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove ##sys# prefix from lambda-info names of library procedures
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:13:32 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Felix Winkelmann scripsit:

> They can't be deprecated, as these procedures are used internally.

I know that that is so, but is there any reason why it must be so?
Could not internal use also be converted from ##sys#error to error, etc.?

> But user/egg code should still not use it, of course. 

A longer-term effort would be to migrate these names out of the "chicken"
module and into a "##sys" module, so that they are only imported explicitly.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        address@hidden
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I could not.  --Great-Souled Sam



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