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2011-08-21 07:38:34

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WG1 - Core

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Emails from Aaron Hsu and Denis Washington:

[AH] I do not buy the argument that we are making things better by using `module` instead of `library` in this case. The module term is much more common throughout, including systems in Chez, PLT, Scheme48 (I believe), among others.

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[DW] (Bigloo and Chicken are two others which use `module` for existing forms.) I feel that clashing with all of these implementations substantially increases the burden for these systems' implementors to adopt to R7RS.

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[DW] What about `define-library`? It might be slightly confusing as it sounds a bit procedural for a purely syntactic construct, but it does not seem to clash with any existing implementation (as far as a quick Google search reveals, at least [as well as direct testing --JC]) and preserves the "library" term, which is common, well-known, clear and in line with previous Scheme specs (R6RS and, in a way, R5RS' usage of the term "library procedure").

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cowan

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DEFINE-LIBRARY to replace MODULE

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2011-07-08 01:33:33

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Duplicate of #102.

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