Re: r6rs libraries

[Andreas Rottmann]

Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:

> * At the moment, R6RS libraries can "import" Guile modules directly,
> but the reverse is not true, partly because I can't figure out a good
> way to map version information onto the filesystem in a way that
> Guile's module system can understand.  My initial thought was to do it
> such that a library's version would map to its module name, a la:
>
> (library (foo bar baz (6))
>
> would live in
>
> /foo/bar/6/baz.scm
>
> ...but Guile doesn't like numbers in the module name.
>
All R6RS implementations I'm somewhat familiar with (Ikarus, PLT,
Ypsilon) do some kind of name mangling when library names contain
"special" characters; e.g. (srfi :6 and-let*) maps to
"srfi/%3a2/and-let%2a.sls", at least for Ikarus (%-escaped hex of the
utf-8 encoding, IIRC).

Nice to see Guile is on the way to R6RS interoperability!

Regards, Rotty