[Larceny-users] library name clashes in larceny with the -r7rs -program options

[William D Clinger]

John Bignucolo wrote:

> I ran into a problem when I tried to change the program to use the
> string-join function from SRFI-13.
> 
> The '-r7rs' '-program' options require that you import everything you need.
> Since string-join is part of SRFI-13 I thought all I needed to do was:
> 
> (import (scheme base)
>         (scheme load)
>         (scheme write)
>         (scheme process-context)
>         (srfi 13))

> But this generated an error:
> 
> Syntax violation: import
> 
> Different bindings for identifier imported from libraries () and (srfi :13
> strings)
> 
> Form: string-for-each

A lot of the SRFI specifications are incompatible with R7RS
libraries or R6RS libraries or other SRFI libraries.  You have
to resolve those conflicts on your own, because Larceny can't
just guess which definition you want.

In this case, the specs for string-map and string-for-each
in SRFI 13 are incompatible with their R7RS specifications.
There are various ways to resolve that.  If you don't need
string-map and string-for-each, or you are willing to work
with the R7RS versions of those procedures, you can write

(import (scheme base)
        (except (srfi 13) string-map string-for-each))

> I was able to able to get it work by changing the srfi import
> definition to be:
> 
> (only (srfi 13) string-join)

That's another good way to resolve the conflicts, and it's
an even better way if string-join is all you need.

> But this resulted in a five-fold increase in runtime, due I assume,
> to a longer startup time required to find string-join:

The longer startup time is caused by the implementation of
(srfi 13) in Larceny.  The (srfi 13) library imports the
(srfi :13) library, which imports six R6RS libraries, two
other SRFI libraries, the R7RS (scheme base) library, and
the (larceny shivers-syntax) library, which defines the
macros Olin Shivers used to write his implementation of
(srfi 13).  Some of those libraries may import yet other
libraries.

It just takes a while to load all those libraries.

You can examine the source code for those libraries in

    lib/SRFI/srfi/13.sld
    lib/SRFI/srfi/%3a13.sls

(et cetera)

Will