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>Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> It's unfortunate that srfi-25 is incompatible with >> SLIB. Both include array-set! and make-array functions, >> but they are incompatible - i.e. there are argument lists >> that are valid for both apis, but give different results. >> >> This is bad. > >But only slightly. For myself, I primarily use SLIB for cut-and-paste >reuse, it is my library of last resort. I don't like the burden of its >module system and I frequently find that it implements >almost-but-not-quite the functionality I need. > >Anyway, I'm not going to go off slagging what is still a good body of >software (because I *do* use a fair few bits of it in various >projects), but I just can't see compatibility with SLIB as being an >issue. > >Go final. > I have the same problems with SLIB. Somehow it shows it's age. The fact that it is pretty useless for batch compilers doesn't help... To arrays: I prefer the way SRFI-25 does it. Yeah. Finalize it. cheers, felix