The issue isn't with SRFIs as such, but with R7RS-small; there is no way for an implementation to communicate to its callers what features it does or does not support at or before compile time. In SRFI 115, for example, there are various features that can be tested by cond-expand, but this is not very helpful, because there is no portable way to add a cond-expand feature.
As a result, the resence or absence of the feature would have to be hard-coded into the implementation, which would not realize if its implementation were replaced by another either more or less capable.
John Cowan
http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan xxxxxx@ccil.orgRather than making ill-conceived suggestions for improvement based on
uninformed guesses about established conventions in a field of study with
which familiarity is limited, it is sometimes better to stick to merely
observing the usage and listening to the explanations offered, inserting
only questions as needed to fill in gaps in understanding. --Peter Constable