> What files exist is obviously highly environment-dependent. Here you are sounding like a lawyer, in the worst possible connotation: you are finding a way to obey (a tortured interpretation of) the letter of the law while flouting its spirit. I think the standard clearly meant merely that the files on my disk are different from the files on your disk, not that Scheme should refuse to load some files that /do/ exist.
And the motivation for this restriction, if I'm remembering the thread correctly, is that someone, I forget who, wants to protect me against the possibility of my loading a file of malware that someone sent me. Pfui. If this is the worry, it's the operating system's job to fix it, e.g. by a sandboxing mechanism like that of Sugar (sugarlabs.org). _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
