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Re: New module system wishlist
- To: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: New module system wishlist
- From: Clark McGrew <mcgrew at ale dot physics dot sunysb dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:07:15 +0900
- Reply-to: clark dot mcgrew at sunysb dot edu
>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
Neil> Someone else mentioned backwards compatibility. My view is
Neil> that this is an extremely small consideration and should be
Neil> dropped if there is any conflict at all with other desirable
Neil> features. The existing body of Guile code is still small
Neil> enough that we don't need backwards compatibility that much.
Your body of guile code may be small, but there are quite a few
projects using guile and gratuitous changes in the high level
interface will cause problems. Changes are ok, but changing things
like the basic syntax "define-module", "export" and company would be
bad. Guile already has enough problems with compatibility between
releases.
Cheers,
Clark