Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][for chicken-5] Remove srfi-13

[Felix Winkelmann]

[replying to Peter]

> I don't grok what you are saying here.  Do you want to copy the entire
> CHICKEN 4 egg list to CHICKEN 5?  It may be better to copy individual
> eggs later, when we've finished all our module refactorings.  That way,
> the eggs won't all break at once, and only the eggs people are really
> interested in will survive the transition.

I think as many eggs as possible should make the transition, at least
those that are in svn.

> Maybe not just for internal use.  Perhaps a chicken.string module could
> contain these things plus the CHICKEN-specific ones from data-structures,
> like string-intersperse and such?  these functions are useful to user
> code, too.  Especially if we optimise them by removing all the silly
> polymorphisms from the SRFI-13 implementation.

By restricting them to internal use, we can use faster variants, and
it will make user-code less confusing if it uses the "official"
eggified definitions. Otherwise people will start mixing official and
internal SRFI procedures. Isn't one of the goals of CHICKEN-5 to make
the API cleaner?


felix