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> From: MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> > Alchemy Petrofsky <alchemy@petrofsky.org> wrote: > > [...] The fundamental problem is the inability to unambiguously refer to a > > particular SRFI document without having to remember which one of thirty > > numbers was assigned to the document. > > Do the titles already overlap? No, but this is not guaranteed by the process, so if you write down "the 'List Library' SRFI" now, someone reading that next year might be unable to determine if you were referring to SRFI 1 or SRFI 42. Furthermore, as I said in the first article in this thread, using the full titles is both too verbose and unamenable to embedding in an identifier. The verbosity problem is the reason that so many implementation announcements and feature descriptions use the numbers alone (making many of us unable to make sense of those announcements without referring to a table). The identifier problem is the reason that things like SRFIs 0 and 7, and numerous implementation-dependent module systems, allow you to refer to SRFI documents in a program by number, but not by title. -al