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Re: Some questions about the module system

Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@linux.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:

> Umm, what exactly are these "serious deficiencies"? :)

Well, the ones I have encountered have been performance (I'm told it's
the module system), necessity of modifying pure RnRS code, messiness
of handling modules in other languages, and lack of a clean, standard,
interface. 

> The current module system seems to have the same functionality as SHEME48's.

Yes and no.  Scheme48 supports freezing heaps, immutable modules
(optimization potential) and a few other things. 

Still, you should ask some of the experts on this list. 

What I miss most is a convenient way to do absolute module lookups and
renamed imports.  Oh, and guile is slow-ish.

Andrew

> Jost