On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Per Bothner <[email protected]> wrote: > 5.5.1 Library Syntax says: > > "Note: Implementations are encouraged to search for files in > the directory which contains the including file, and to provide > a way for users to specify other directories to search." > > What does this mean? This implies a mapping from library to file, > which I don't see otherwise specified. > > Of course without such a mapping, libraries aren't very portable ...
There's no guarantee an R7RS implementation even uses files. In Chibi, for instance, libraries may be pre-defined or loaded from an image. So there's not a whole lot we can say about this. I'd prefer to just drop the note altogether. This level of specification belongs to the tools used to distribute and share code, i.e. snow. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
