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davidw@gate.cks.com writes: > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:46:26AM -0500, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > > chrisb@ans.com.au writes: > > > > > > What if any is the relationship between slib's (require ..) and guile's > > > (use-module ...) > > > One works for Guile modules, the other works for slib packages. They > > are not interchangable, AFAIK there is no package you can load using > > both methods. Personally, I would like to see slib packages made > > visible in the Guile module namespace, I have some ideas on this but > > I might wait for Godot before taking a crack at it. > > I ran into this last night, and figured it out, but it is definitely > weird for new users (although I guess people deal with it in Perl, as > well, with require, use, etc...). Would be really cool if it were a > bit more consistent. I guess that's a fairly tall order, though. > > So, for those in the know, what will it take to get some 'standard > lib' kinds of things for scheme? Are 'official' people working on > this? Or does someone just need to do a really nice implementation of > it, and create a de-facto standard? > An archive of RFIs (Requests For Implementation) is in the process of being set up (does anyone know the URL?). From what I have seen, some smart people are contributing useful RFIs, I expect these to be come a de facto standard. I hope in the future some useful subset of them is reviewed for consistency and adopted as a de jure "Common Scheme" standard. The core standard could then be made even smaller by migrating the procedures that are implementable in terms of others into the libraries. - MAciej