Re: Last call for comments on SRFI 261: Portable SRFI Library Reference
Peter McGoron 08 Oct 2025 13:47 UTC
On 10/7/25 01:45, Daphne Preston-Kendal wrote:
> This SRFI needlessly throws the legitimacy of such authorial library name assignments into question. Arthur, I think as SRFI editor you ought to step in here and at the very least prevent this from happening. It would be damaging to the SRFI process to allow any doubt to be sown about whether such names are valid references.
SRFI-97 already disposes of author-chosen names:
> Some authors specified names that should be used for libraries. These
names are not used here. Instead, a consistent naming scheme is used
that happens to differ from the authors' originally chosen names.
For example, SRFI-97 changes the name of SRFI-1 from "list-lib" to "lists".
I don't think this is a good idea, but SRFI-97 was finalized in December
2008, and it's conventions are followed (Thunderchez, chez-srfi, Larceny
for examples). This SRFI isn't doing anything on the naming front that
hasn't already been done by SRFI-97.
-- Peter McGoron