[plt-scheme] Renaming module identifiers

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Paul
At Thu, 07 Nov 2002 20:00:59 -0500 (EST), dvanhorn at emba.uvm.edu wrote:
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> Quoting dvanhorn at emba.uvm.edu:
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> > Is it possible to rename all exported identifiers of a module using a
> > function (symbol -> symbol)?
> > 
> > From the documentation it seems only explicit renaming is allowed and must be
> > done for each identifier you wish to rename.  So then my question is,
> > could I add this functionality?
> > 
> > eg.
> > (require (rename-all some-module (lambda (x) x)))         ;; no change
> > (require (rename-all some-module (lambda (x) (gensym))))  ;; take an advil
> 
> Perhaps if I stated my problem, rather than my attempt at a solution I would've
> gotten more responses.
> 
> I have some modules that provide a lot of identifiers.  These modules follow a
> pretty simple, but verbose and ugly naming scheme.  It's possible to write a
> function that maps these names to much more usable names, but it looks like I
> have to spell everything out, identifier by identifier.  Is this true?  Can I
> get around it?
> 
> Modifying the actual modules is not an option for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
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