Re: Use core or SRFIs?

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

Hi!

I see. Thanks, that is what I did so far as well : )

Best regards,

Zelphir

On 10/24/19 6:01 PM, Nala Ginrut wrote:
> Personally, I prefer srfi. But sometimes I mix with RnRS.
> I think it's better to avoid Guile specific things, however, Guile
> provides many good things that the standard doesn't have.
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:56 PM Zelphir Kaltstahl
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Guile Users!
>
>     I have a question regarding usage of SRFIs in Guile code.
>
>     Sometimes there are core functions, which are also available from an
>     SRFI implementation. One example I am currently dealing with are
>     bitwise
>     operations for integer numbers. There is SRFI 60 and there are the
>     core
>     functions like logand, logior and so on.
>
>     Usually I tend to think, that using the SRFI implementation in such
>     situation is better, as it is an implementation of a common interface,
>     which other Schemes might also have implemented. Using that makes code
>     more portable to other Schemes. However, I want to be sure, that
>     this is
>     a good way of thinking about it. Are there ever arguments against
>     using
>     an SRFI implementation, when an SRFI implementation provides what
>     I need?
>
>     Another example are structs. I usually use SRFI 9 to make some
>     structs,
>     instead of the core record or struct type.
>
>     What do you think?
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Zelphir
>
>