Brian Mastenbrook scripsit: > As a general concept, this appears to be a renaming of "directory". > There are plenty of systems which allow "directories" to be accessed > which are the members of a zip archive, remote network shares, and > other virtual resources. Is there something I'm missing?
Well, it specifies several roots, and abstracts the idea of paths a bit. > As a specific instantiation, I have a significant problem with the > specification of `program-vicinity'. How can an ordinary procedure > like `program-vicinity' return information about where its call was > located? By groveling into the implementation, determining the identity of its caller and asking the system where the caller was loaded from. -- Evolutionary psychology is the theory John Cowan that men are nothing but horn-dogs, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and that women only want them for their money. [email protected] --Susan McCarthy (adapted) _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
