[r6rs-discuss] [ANN] scheme-reports.org

[Thomas Lord]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 11:49 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas Lord scripsit:
> 
> > I hope that small Scheme does *not* include a module system but large
> > scheme does.
> 
> Your hope has failed:
> 
> http://www.scheme-reports.org/2009/working-group-1-charter.html says:
> 
> # The language developed by working group 1 must include support for
> # macros and modules/libraries in a way that is appropriate for the
> # language's small size.
> 
> I suppose you *could* read that as "the appropriate size is none at all",
> but that would be perverse.

I don't consider something like REQUIRE to be a module
system but I do (e.g. slib) think it perfectly reasonable
for libraries and appropriate to a language of small size.

What is specifically not desirable in a small language
is the hair of multiple top-level namespaces with exports
and imports among them.

-t