[r6rs-discuss] Proposed features for small Scheme, part 9: modules

[John Cowan]

Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:

> >Hopefully the Posix example makes things clearer.  It's not whether an
> >OpenGL module is available (it always is) but whether OpenGL itself is
> >available, a notion outside the Scheme system.
> 
> An OpenGL module *is always available*? What other modules is WG1
> scheme going to mandate as always available?!?

Not at all.  I'm saying that *you*, the developer, can have an OpenGL
module that is present on the user's system whether or not OpenGL *itself*
is present, and works (for sufficiently small values of "works") both
with and without OpenGL.

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