Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > On Fri 09 Jul 2010 19:59, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I am not completely sure this is the right place to ask this, but why >> do many of the module names in Guile start with 'ice-9'? >> >> I can tell you that as a newcomer this is quite unintuitive. > > Heh, I thought that too, once. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine > > The idea at the time (1998 or so) was that Guile's module system would > crystallize the mass of Scheme code out there. It didn't happen exactly > like that; in practice ice-9 is Guile's namespace. > > Now, there is a deeper issue here -- a global Scheme namespace is > starting to emerge, and Guile is a bit all over the map. To me it's fine > to have e.g. statprof have the toplevel module, (statprof), even though > it's part of Guile; but in a way I feel that instead of having ice-9 and > system, we should just have (guile) as our module prefix, in the same > way that e.g. ikarus and chez scheme have (ikarus ...) and (chezscheme > ...), respectively. > > It's too late to do that this cycle, but perhaps during 2.0 or for 2.2 > we could provide (ice-9 popen) as an alias to (guile popen), and > eventually for 2.4 deprecate both ice-9 and system. Just a thought, > though... > +1 for that idea from me.
Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
