[oleg@pobox.com: Minor quibbles on the latest draft] scgmille@xxxxxx (30 Jul 2003 22:24 UTC)
Re: [oleg@pobox.com: Minor quibbles on the latest draft] scgmille@xxxxxx (31 Jul 2003 03:20 UTC)
Re: [oleg@pobox.com: Minor quibbles on the latest draft] Jens Axel Søgaard (31 Jul 2003 07:34 UTC)
Re: [oleg@pobox.com: Minor quibbles on the latest draft] scgmille@xxxxxx (31 Jul 2003 13:02 UTC)
Re: [oleg@pobox.com: Minor quibbles on the latest draft] Jens Axel Søgaard (31 Jul 2003 13:55 UTC)
Re: [oleg@pobox.com: Minor quibbles on the latest draft] scgmille@xxxxxx (31 Jul 2003 15:34 UTC)

Re: [oleg@pobox.com: Minor quibbles on the latest draft] scgmille@xxxxxx 31 Jul 2003 15:34 UTC
> You have a point.
>
> >This is especially important for maintenance of the resulting
> >system.  Especially as Scheme systems start (and continue) to offer
> >compiled modules, programmers or sysadmins may want to upgrade package
> >Foo.  If Foo changes its selection of the underlying set collection, it
> >would be onerous to require all packages that depend on it to be
> >modified at the source code level to remain compatible.
> >
> Yes - but isn't it the role of the module system to take care of that?

If its a sophisticated enough module system, then probably.  But as we
aren't specifying module system functionality in this SRFI, we don't
have that luxury, as you point out.

	Scott