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Modules, guile factorization, initial environment (Re: O-O in guile)


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