[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Library form should prefix libraries

[John Cowan]

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Submitter: John Cowan
Email address: cowan at ccil.org
Issue type: Simplification
Priority: Minor
Component: Libraries
Report version: 5.92
Summary:  The library form should prefix rather than enclose libraries.

Currently a library is represented by a single datum (a library form),
whereas a top-level program is represented by a sequence of forms.
The latter is more convenient for both generation and processing,
and I urge that it be adopted for libraries also.

This can be achieved by moving the export, import, and library-body
parts of the library out of the library form (typically this amounts
to moving a single close paren), and copying the language of report
section 7.1 about "a delimited piece of text" into report section 6.1.

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