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naking in srfi-167 Per Bothner (19 Apr 2019 05:03 UTC)
Re: naming in srfi-167 Per Bothner (19 Apr 2019 05:14 UTC)
Re: naking in srfi-167 John Cowan (19 Apr 2019 06:00 UTC)
Re: naking in srfi-167 Amirouche Boubekki (19 Apr 2019 13:38 UTC)
Re: naking in srfi-167 Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (19 Apr 2019 13:42 UTC)
Re: naking in srfi-167 Amirouche Boubekki (22 Apr 2019 09:57 UTC)
Re: naking in srfi-167 John Cowan (22 Apr 2019 15:27 UTC)

Re: naming in srfi-167 Per Bothner 19 Apr 2019 05:13 UTC

[Damn. I need to remember to double-proofread Subject lines ...]

On 4/18/19 10:03 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
> Without getting into the meat of this srfi, the names seem awkward.
> Most obviously, there is a set! operator, which conflicts with r7rs.
> The 'make' procedure conflicts with (at least) Kawa and Guile.
> The 'range' name might be better saved for a procedure that returns
> a "range" (sequence of integers) value.
>
> Obviously all of these can renamed on import, but it seems rather contrary
> to Scheme naming conventions.

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