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On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:42 +0300, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > 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. Yeah, conflict with SLIB would happen. > > 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. This SRFI intends to be usable by any dialect with library names being a sequence of symbols. That is why, in the Abstract, I wrote: "intended for implementations of the R6RS, and perhaps other Scheme dialects". Do you think that should be made clearer? I'm thinking I should add something like the first sentence of this paragraph to somewhere in this SRFI's document. -- : Derick ----------------------------------------------------------------