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Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > > One goal of Guile is to be a practical Scheme implementation. It is > aimed at using Scheme in applications. The core Scheme functionality > is too small to be useful directly in applications programming---it > needs to be complemented by library functions. Now, most libraries > should of course be explicitly loaded, but I would get mad if I had to > load the list module every time I wanted to remove an element in a > list with the `delq' operation. I think `delq' is an example of an > operation which should belong to a core Guile language. Olin Shivers (?) recently submitted an SFRI on www.schemers.org that provides a lot more generally useful list functions, some snarfed from CL and other languages. Will that make it into later guile versions? -- Klaus Schilling