Re: Functional random data streams Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 20 Aug 2020 20:27 UTC

Am Do., 20. Aug. 2020 um 22:18 Uhr schrieb Arthur A. Gleckler
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> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:23 AM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:
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>> I think it would be a good thing to maintain a database of all bindings (and aliases) of all official R7RS-large libraries.
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> That would be great.
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> I've slowly been collecting signatures from all SRFIs in this rough format:
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> ((signature (list object ...)
>             (returns list))
>  (source (srfi 1))
>  (kind procedure))
> ((signature (make-list n)
>             (returns list))
>  (signature (make-list n fill)
>             (returns list))
>  (source (srfi 1))
>  (kind procedure))

That's much more detailed than what I have had in mind. I was just
thinking of a list of identifiers exported by each library together
with any aliases. But one can probably extract that data from the
format you provide and, vice versa, one can use the simple table to
create stubs to be filled in later in your format.