Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add initial version of (chicken base)

[felix . winkelmann]

> - notice (we already had "warning" and "error", however, notice seems
>           to be used mostly in the compiler)

Does this need to be exposed? I'm not sure how useful this is for user
code.

> - use
> - require-library
> - require-extension
> - quotient&{remainder,modulo}
>
> I'm not 100% sure about require-library, require-extension and use,
> especially given that import is in (chicken module).

Hm... I thought we try to get rid of all these alternative loading forms?

> I think by default the entire scheme and (chicken base) modules should
> be available at the regular and meta toplevels.

Sounds good to me.

>
> I'm less certain what we should add to the non-macro toplevel default
> Perhaps (chicken type), (chicken fixnum), (chicken flonum) and
> (chicken foreign) [the latter for compiled code], but we could also
> keep it otherwise empty, or even add everything from library.scm, much
> like we do today in CHICKEN 4.  This would make it easier for scripts,
> but perhaps a bit more confusing for beginners ("what do you mean,
> sometimes I have to import and sometimes it's already there?!!")

Does this apply to interpreted or compiled code? My assumption was
that only the base stuff is initially visible.


felix