Hello Guile developers: I have come to realize that there are several finalized SRFIs published by John Cowan and others, for example, SRFI-133 (vector library), SRFI-125 (intermediate hash tables), SRFI-126 (R6RS-based hash tables) that were intended to replace older SRFIs (for example SRFI-43, and SRFI-69) when R7RS-large is supposed to be ratified.
Looking at the functionality already available in Guile, it seems like these newer SRFIs could very easily be supported since the functionality is already fully implemented and could be re-exported as modules in the (srfi srfi-*) modules. And incidentally, GNU/MIT Scheme does provide support for SRFI-125 and SRFI-133 already. So I am wondering why this hasn't been done in Guile yet? Is it a lack of time and human resources? Or is it somehow against the Guile philosophy to try to implement these newer SRFIs? Or maybe you want to wait until R7RS-large is ratified? If it is a lack of resources, I might like to try implementing these SRFIs in Guile and submit a patch. Thanks for your time and hard work implementing Guile! -- Ramin Honary
