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

[Thomas Lord]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 13:32 -0700, Nicholas "Indy" Ray wrote:
> I'm not sure how that becomes "a perfectly nice standard for a module
> system" It doesn't contain any of the nice properties of module
> systems such as prefixing/renaming or being able to define exports at
> the top level. 

That rather depends on your mechanism for
syntactic abstraction, doesn't it?  I told
you, hygiene is not high on my list of important
features.  (With a good macro systems, a hygenic
macro system can be robustly and efficiently 
provided by a library!)



> Kind of reminds me of those How to draw Donald Duck
> books... Circle for the head, circle for the body, some for the
> legs... and then some magic happens and Presto! now you have Donald
> Duck!

Yes, but you're strange that way :-)

-t