[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Add a multi-file library example

From: Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum>
Date: Wed Nov 15 01:21:05 2006

On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:51 AM, MichaelL_at_frogware.com wrote:

> Thanks, Will.
>
> I was thinking, for example, of a library like SSAX that's too big to
> fit
> in one file. If you accept that the proper course would be to break
> SSAX
> into pieces and import all pieces as libraries then this approach
> might be
> ok. Personally, I'd like to know that my internal helper libraries are
> private and completely shielded from public view. But maybe that's just
> me.

You might be in a minority group, but you're certainly not alone. If I
had to make a choice between the two, I would pick local modules (like
Chez's modules) over global libraries any time of the day. I believe in
libraries being a way of publishing a coherent set of related procedures
and macros that serve a particular purpose in one bundle called a
library.
Internal to a library, there must be ways of structuring code and
controlling visibility without having to resort to polluting the global
name space of libraries.

Aziz,,,
Received on Wed Nov 15 2006 - 01:20:44 UTC