Re: [Chicken-users] Eggology

[Sunnan]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> I agree with Benedikt that dependencies should be kept at a minimum.
> It starts with simple sharing of code but quickly everything ends up in
> a tangle of dependencies that no one can comprehend.
What's the alternative? Should "tool" implement its own args 
documentation? Should array-lib implement its own miscmacros?

>  "tool" is a good
> example:
>
> tool -> srfi-37, args-doc
> args-doc -> srfi-37, srfi-95
> srfi-95 -> array-lib
> array-lib -> srfi-42, miscmacros, misc-extn
> srfi-42 -> syntax-case
>
> This is insane.
>   
That example is a tree of non-circular dependencies.

Syntax-case is low-level, srfi-42 and miscmacros are control 
structures... This is part of what lisp is to me; layers upon layers of 
code.

Of course, I'm not saying that dependencies are an end in itself; I'm 
just wondering if you or Benedikt have an alternative suggestion.

Sunnan