[Larceny-users] ERR5RS library form question

[Lynn Winebarger]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Derick Eddington
<derick.eddington at gmail.com> wrote:
> [good info clipped]
>> [*]   Am I the only Schemer who wants this facility?
>
> No.  I would like it to portably exist, and I know of others who also
> do.  IIUC, there was discussion of this issue during the R6RS draft
> period but "internal import and/or export" weren't adopted in order to
> "keep things simple".  You may find interesting the thread at:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_thread/thread/1ba73b8267304876/7dd876d1532853d6

Good reference.  Aziz's "environment-symbols" and internal
import/export would simplify using Larceny's "primitives" library
syntax extension.

What I recall (and reread) of the discussion was that they wanted
people to be able process libraries with sed and such, and not need to
expand libraries to figure out dependencies.

My footnote was actually referring to the use of qualified field names
for record access (i.e. x.field1) rather than destructuring by pattern
matching or explicit procedural access/mutation.  Probably not the
right forum, definitely off-topic.