[r6rs-discuss] Import choices: flexibility vs. discoverability

[John Cowan]

Ray Dillinger scripsit:

> That isn't the case.  A system that manages inventory and orders 
> will use a database on a system where databases are available.  
> 
> But say the DBMS requires a full posix environment.
> 
> This implies that if I can't get a full posix, there is no database
> to communicate with and I have to do things in a different way, 
> which means I *don't* call the posix socket functions (which don't 
> work anyway) and use some other module to manage things in a 
> different way instead.

Okay, I'm convinced.  Conditional import is necessary, so imports have to
be able to appear embedded within syntax.

That doesn't mean I endorse your other propositions.

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