[plt-scheme] SRFI-97 and R6RS

As a starting point, I've added (in SVN) each library listed in SRFI 97
by simply re-exporting the SRFI implementation that's already present.

That's wrong for many SRFIs. It's obviously wrong for `(srfi :1)', for
example, which needs to be replaced with an implementation that works
with mutable lists. Other SRFI implementations could be patched up by
wrapping a few functions with uses of `mlist->list' and `list->mlist'.

Could we get volunteers to to send me repairs for the broken libraries?

Thanks,
Matthew

At Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:29:42 +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using PLT as one of my target platforms for running R6RS code. Up to
> now, I've used Derick Eddington's R6RS SRFI collection, which worked
> nicely on PLT as well, as it used a separate namespace, (xitomatl srfi
> ...). However, recently Derick has switched to SRFI-97 names: (srfi :<N>
> ...), which conflicts with PLT, which already provides SRFIs in the
> (srfi ...) namespace, but does not follow SRFI-97 naming.
> 
> It would be nice if PLT provided SRFI-97-style aliases for the SRFI
> libraries it ships with, so one could use PLT's native SRFI
> implementations from R6RS code in the same way as one would use Derick's
> SRFI collection on implementations that don't ship SRFIs.
> 
> This would also resolve the problem of how to use the SRFIs that ship
> with PLT from R6RS code at all (see
> http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2008-May/024648.html).
> 
> Regards, Rotty
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