On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Panicz Maciej Godek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2016-10-12 20:21 GMT+02:00 Thompson, David <[email protected]>: >> >> >> My understanding is that these symbols have been part of the default >> environment for so long that a lot of code would break if they were >> removed, so they will be staying for the foreseeable future. >> > > On the other hand, the fix would usually be trivial (just one use-modules > clause), and besides I don't think that Guile has ever had a tradition of > worrying too much about backwards compatibility.
The Guile maintainers care very much about backwards compatibility, from what I've seen over the last few years. - Dave
