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Re: SRFI-59, SLIB, and SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH

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Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:

SRFI-59 and SLIB use the environment variable SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH to
configure their single Scheme-source library directory. If SRFI-103
appropriates SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH for its use, it will cause SRFI-59
and SLIB supporting implementations (of which there are many) to fail.


I'm not sure there is a conflict in practice if this SRFI uses the name
SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH since the intersection of users/implementations that
use both R6RS and SLIB is practically 0.0.


Larceny supports both SLIB and R6RS.

I have both a number of R5RS implementations with SLIB, and a few R6RS
implementations installed at the same time; and this is not that rare.


The whole idea of using "SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH" is to say where your
Scheme files are.


SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH in this SRFI only specifies where R6RS libraries
are. If R^NRS libraries (for some N > 6) will not be compatible, you'll
end up with the same kind of conflict.