Hello! Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> skribis:
> Why should Wisp be a separate package when other SRFIs are made part > of Guile? Your point about maintenance and evolving applies equally > to other SRFIs. That’s a good point. Making it available as (srfi srfi-119) would make sense I guess. I need to take a closer look… >> Adding #lang support in Guile would be nice. As discussed on IRC, it >> can be experimented with in a WIP branch. > > Have you seen my messages on how the "#lang" construct is problematic > for some languages, and how alternatives like "[comment delimiter] -*- > stuff: scheme/ecmascript/... -*- [comment delimiter]" appear to be > equally simple (*) and not have any downsides (**). > > (*) The port encoding detection supports "-*- coding: whatever -*-", > presumably that functionality could be reused. > > (**) For compatibility with Racket, it's not like we couldn't > implement both "#lang" and "-*- stuff: language -*-". I haven’t seen your messages yet, I just wanted to express support of the general idea. For years, we have discussed #lang support; I know Andy is enthusiastic about it, and while I was initially reluctant, I’ve come to appreciate the idea. What you point out is worth considering, but note that Guile already supports #!r6rs for instance. Thanks, Ludo’.
