On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:33:46PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer scripsit: > > > (FWIW I'm leaning towards voting no to all and asking them be optional > > modules like everything else, as Peter Bex suggested.) > > <chair hat="off"> > The thing is, there's no way to do them as Scheme libraries or even > Scheme-compatible libraries, except to rebind the base numeric procedures > (as the Chicken egg does), which produces messy results. So I would urge > you not to do that. > </chair>
For the record, I wasn't advocating making them available from a module (which is indeed problematic). Instead of making them mandatory for the whole thing, I am arguing that it's sufficient to require them only for systems which choose to offer libraries which truly require them. Cheers, Peter -- http://www.more-magic.net _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
