Re: What are the long-term goals for R7RS in Chicken?

[felix . winkelmann]

> If there are few substantial differences, it would be a boon to writing
> portable code if the same syntax is eventually used as for standard R7RS
> libraries, and the same filename conventions are supported as other R7RS
> implementations (the .sld filename extension for an R7RS library is
> becoming a de facto standard). You already support (include "...") and
> (cond-expand ...) in a similar manner as R7RS.

Note that include-files and loaded libraries are two different things,
also in CHICKEN, libraries are usually compiled, so the .sld convention
is only partially useful.


felix