Some thoughts on this SRFI Daphne Preston-Kendal (09 Jun 2025 12:55 UTC)
Re: Some thoughts on this SRFI Daphne Preston-Kendal (09 Jun 2025 13:00 UTC)
Re: Some thoughts on this SRFI Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Jun 2025 16:42 UTC)
Re: Some thoughts on this SRFI Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (10 Jun 2025 04:23 UTC)
Re: Some thoughts on this SRFI Daphne Preston-Kendal (10 Jun 2025 08:04 UTC)
Re: Some thoughts on this SRFI Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (12 Jun 2025 06:54 UTC)

Re: Some thoughts on this SRFI Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 10 Jun 2025 04:23 UTC

On 2025-06-09 18:42 +0200, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> This is not a good idea in my opinion, for at least two reasons:
>
> (1) Contrary to SRFI 97, it restricts the space of usable textual
> library name parts ...
>
> (2) Inevitably, the convention proposed by you becomes ugly when R6RS
> library versioning comes into play because the version numbers (which
> are read left-to-right) would come directly after the SRFI number,
> which is not related to versioning.

I think these are both good points.

Having had some time to think about it, I also find something awkward
about (srfi lists-1): the "-1" suffix notionally belongs after "srfi",
not after "lists". SRFI 261's (srfi srfi-1 lists) at least puts the
SRFI-number suffix where it belongs.

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