[Larceny-users] Exporting 'fields'

Andrew Reilly areilly at bigpond.net.au
Sun Feb 14 17:22:34 EST 2010


On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:10:52 -0600
Eduardo Cavazos <wayo.cavazos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 11:19 -0500, will at ccs.neu.edu wrote:
> 
> > If a clear consensus of R6RS implementors and users have
> > decided that not exporting syntactic keywords is a bug, then
> > we will certainly change Larceny's behavior.  As we have said,
> > we are not committed to conforming to known errors within the
> > R6RS documents, even when those errors represent deliberate
> > weakness and restrictions (as in the editors' response to
> > formal comment 267).
> 
> Thanks for the throrough explanation Will.
> 
> As far as a consensus goes, I can't speak for implementors and users.
> But, this script:
> 
>     (import (only (rnrs records syntactic) fields))
> 
> loads without error in Ikarus, Ypsilon, Chez, and Mosh on my system.

FWIW, that line didn't seem to cause a problem on mzscheme
(4.2.2) on my system, either.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew



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