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

If the srfi authors had given them all short names, it might eliminate
those concerns -- the number is authoritative, but the name just helps
remember it.

Maybe base the names on the titles of the srfis?

Robby

On 5/10/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On May 10, Chongkai Zhu wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't think that this is a good idea.  There are already several
> srfis that would have similar names, srfis with names that are close
> to plt libraries, and there is no convention for alternative names for
> srfis which would make things worse if names are added later and
> they're not the names that you choose.
>
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