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Re: About modules
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.