xxxxxx@fernuni-hagen.de wrote:

> On 08 Jun 2004, felix <xxxxxx@call-with-current-continuation.org> wrote:
>
>>Hm. But what's an incompatible extension? Two extensions may be incompatible
>>on one implementation, but (perhaps) not on another.
>
>
> And therefore this (i.e. compatibility checking) is a requirement I would
> like to put on the Scheme implementations.
>
>
>>Would you have a specific example in mind?
>
>
> One I forgot - and one I have just found using grep:
>
> from http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-47/srfi-47.html :
>
> " * The array-set! argument order is different from the same-named
>     procedure in SRFI-25. Type dispatch on the first argument to
>     array-set! could support both SRFIs simultaneously.
>
>   * The make-array arguments are different from the same-named
>     procedure in SRFI-25. Type dispatch on the first argument to
>     make-array could support both SRFIs simultaneously."
>

To help users at least a little, I would propose to add a remark
in this SRFI document that implementations are encouraged to check
for conflicts, but I would definitely not require it.

cheers,
felix