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David Banks scripsit: > Looks good. I think it might be worth giving non-normative examples > of output for the various procedures. This shouldn't be construed as > providing some kind of canonical list of OS types (for instance), but > it's not a lot of use if Rhinoceros Scheme returns "Windows" as a > result of (os-type) and Diplodocus Scheme returns "win32". Even just > specifying "windows", "linux", "macosx" as potentially valid results > for OS-TYPE will improve the usefulness of the SRFI a lot. i.e. > there's still scope for implementors to break this convention, but if > they don't need to then so much the better. If you want to know if you are on Windows, you should either say (cond-expand (windows <code-for-windows>) (else <code-for-non-windows>)) or if you need to know at run time, (memq 'windows (features)). These are already part of R7RS-small. Conditionalizing on the result of (os-type) is therefore unnecessary, and it is free to return whatever result makes sense to the implementor, whether "Windows" or "Win32" or "Microsoftâ Windowsâ". > Providing example output would also increase the usefulness of the > SRFI as a reference for users, for instance I currently have no idea > what a likely result of (c-memory-model) would look like (except that > it can be #f). See Appendix B of R7RS-small. Semi-standard features corresponding to this are ilp32, lp64, and ilp64. See <http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html> for explanations, though the terms apply to Windows too. > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/uname.cc?rev=1.30.10.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src Thanks. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan@xxxxxxxx There are books that are at once excellent and boring. Those that at once leap to the mind are Thoreau's Walden, Emerson's Essays, George Eliot's Adam Bede, and Landor's Dialogues. --Somerset Maugham