Re: About modules

[Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>]

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> I agree that environments do not directly provide an easy-to-use
> module system.  But Marius was suggesting that Guile should not have
> an official module system, but rather a mechanism for managing
> namespaces, on top of which an application could add whatever module
> system it needed.

Hmm, yes.  In my view, the environments are the run-time means by
which (part of) the namespace semantics are actually implemented.  The
namespaces themselves should probably be a quite static construct,
like in Rees' system.  (But having run-time access is equally
important.)  So what I think is missing on top of the environments is
some syntax to make them convenient.