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