[plt-scheme] Are new Schemers supposed to be reading SRFIs?

From: Chongkai Zhu (czhu at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu May 10 16:26:59 EDT 2007

I'm planning to add a "list.ss" file under "collection/srfi", which will be 
the same as "1.ss" except the module name. But here I would also like to 
hear other people's opinion on how to do this.

Chongkai

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chongkai Zhu" <czhu at cs.utah.edu>
To: "Danny Yoo" <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu>
Cc: "mzscheme Mailing List" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Are new Schemers supposed to be reading SRFIs?


> This is a good suggestion. I'm going to do this. Thanks.
>
> Chongkai
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Danny Yoo" <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu>
> To: "Grant Rettke" <grettke at acm.org>
> Cc: "mzscheme Mailing List" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Are new Schemers supposed to be reading SRFIs?
>
>
>>
>> PLT Scheme does provide slightly more mnemonic informative module aliases 
>> for the commonly used SRFI's.  We can take SRFI-1 (the list library) for 
>> example; it can go by the following names:
>>
>>     (lib "1.ss" "srfi")
>>     (lib "list.ss" "srfi" "1")
>>
>> But I'd love to see things taken further and just have:
>>
>>     (lib "list.ss" "srfi")
>>
>> work as well.  I don't think there will be so many similar SRFI's such 
>> that module name collisions are likely to occur between any two SRFI's, 
>> are there?
>
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