Re: [Chicken-hackers] Library list support

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 09:12:41PM +1300, Evan Hanson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The "chicken-5-library-lists" branch adds support for list-style library
> names, e.g. (use (chicken ports)) and the like.
> 
> I'm still making minor improvements here and there, but in general I think
> it's ready to be merged. I'd appreciate it if someone could have a look.

This is truly beautiful work, Evan!  I like how you introduced a new
feature while at the same time significantly simplifying the affected
procedures, and already made more headway into getting rid of the ##sys#
prefixes.  And it doesn't even need to be bootstrapped specially :)

> A few things to note:
> 
>   * Support for defining new module aliases (i.e. the `(module foo = bar)`
>     syntax) has been removed to avoid ambiguity with functor instantiation.
>     See <address@hidden> and
>     <address@hidden>. The machinery has been left in
>     place, however, so it won't be much trouble to restore the feature with a
>     different syntax later (or swap it in for a different functor syntax, or
>     whatever).

This is fine with me.  We could maybe do (alias-module foo bar) or something.
But I don't really think this is a very useful feature anyway.

>   * With that single exception, everything is totally backwards-compatible,
>     and I haven't changed any existing documentation or tests to use the new
>     library syntax yet.

Perfect!  I even tested it with the srfi-14 egg, and it worked there too.

>   * The branch adds an "internal" unit ("chicken.internal" module) for new
>     runtime support code.

This is good progress!  If we keep this up we may even have a chance at
releasing CHICKEN 5 in 2016 ;)

Cheers,
Peter

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