So...<br><br>I was asked to post this comment here after it came up on the Ikarus users list.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br>I am not a common contributor to the SRFI process, I am just some guy who uses Scheme, loves scheme and tries to encourage others to use it too.&nbsp; That may seem like an irrelevant point, but I think it&#39;s essentail to understand the context of what I&#39;m about to say.<br>
<br>Scheme is a powerful, elegant language.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, I sometimes think that people go out of there way to make it hard for people to learn.<br><br>I have one simple question.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you step back from this process, and you think about someone coming to scheme for the first time, what value is there in naming a library after the order that someone thought of the idea?&nbsp;&nbsp; Please take the following in the good humour it is intended - I don&#39;t want to start a flame war, just make a point.<br>
<br>Imagine for a second I create a new language, the awesome, all powerful Perlpy Scruby, in this language I choose to name the libraries after the combination of the process used to reach the design decision and the order in which the particular design decision was made. &nbsp; Therefore, in my Perlpy Scruby code you might see the following at a top of a file:<br>
<br>&lt;import&nbsp; &lt;gjti &lt;47 64 12&gt;&gt;&gt;<br><br>OK, as you are all newcomers to my fictional language, I hope you&#39;re all perfectly comfortable and understand exactly what I just did.&nbsp; If you don&#39;t you&#39;ll be reassured to know that there is a site, somewhere ont he internet that you can trawl through to find out what those things all mean.<br>
<br>I am all for standardised naming, in fact in a world with so many Scheme implementations I think it&#39;s essential, but why do we have name things after the beurocracy involved in standarising them?&nbsp; It only makes sense to the people involved in this kind of discussion, not to the end users of the language.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Geoff Teale<br>&lt;<a target="_top" href="mailto:xxxxxx@member.fsf.org">xxxxxx@member.fsf.org</a>&gt;