On 30.10.2023 11:24, Ramin Honary wrote: > 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 >
Note that SRFI 126 is probably *not* going to be part of R7RS-large. (As much as it saddens me, since I'm the author.) That being said, the reference implementation is written specifically for Guile, and it offers some things 125 doesn't. If some people like 126 simply as a powerful hash table library, or if they like the R6RS hashtables API but wish it had a few more bells and whistles, then I guess it wouldn't hurt to include SRFI 126 in Guile. (It strictly extends the R6RS API.) https://github.com/scheme-requests-for-implementation/srfi-126 -- Taylan
