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Russ McManus <russell.mcmanus@gs.com> writes: > Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes: > > > For a while, I've been leaning towards something > > backwards-compatible with Scheme 48's module system, because it was > > designed by people with experience and good taste, and for > > compatibility with SCSH. > > I agree with you assessments of the Scheme 48 module system, and the > desire to be compatible with Scsh. > > But please, please, please let's ask the MzScheme and Rice people for > their ideas also. In particular, it will be interesting to know why > the module systems that were developed for each of these systems made > the design choices that they did. > > For example, influential people have suggested to me that the MzScheme > module systems better supports separate compilation than the Scheme48 > module system. We should investigate issues like this thoroughly > before jumping for a particular module system. Don't forget the Bigloo module system (which supports separate compilation & which I think STk now supports). -- Harvey J. Stein BFM Financial Research hjstein@bfr.co.il