Andre van Tonder wrote:
In conclusion, the procedural/reflection interface is economical,
clean and simple. I suggest removing the syntactic libraries from the
SRFI.
I disagree. A declarative/syntactic interface is preferable:
- I believe it is easier to implement more efficiently.
- It is more compatible with (optional) static typing and type declarations.
- It is easier to optimize.
- I think it is easier to use and supports better style.
I.e. a declarative interface is what we should encourage libary writers,
students, and textbooks to use. Hence it needs to be in R6RS. A procedural
interface is useful for a few relatively rare/advanced applications, and it
might be useful to *define* the declarative interface, but is definitely not
as important in normal use.