Hey all,
Just a rando on the internet, but wanted to chime in and express
my support for the idea of low-hanging fruit fixes to make Guile
more approachable. Since nobody else called it out yet,
On 2022-02-09 at 10:18 -05, quoth Christine Lemmer-Webber
<cweb...@dustycloud.org>:
[...]
ice-9 -> guile
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I think that ice-9 is a weird namespace for "guile's standard
library"
but it's what we have for historical reasons. Still I would
have
preferred that namespace simply be "guile", so we have (guile
match) and
(guile format) instead of (ice-9 ...). It would be clearer what
ice-9
*is* to have it be called "guile" instead. But maybe it's too
late for
that. How much work would it be to do an alias like this?
[...]
I wanted to say that i found this extremely baffling, too. I
initially assumed `ice-9` must be somebody's side-project to add
"helpful features" to the Guile stdlib, and searched around a bit
and (predictably) found a reference to a scifi novel i was unaware
of. I dismissed that out of hand because surely "ice" in the
context of Guile must stand for something else, but a few weeks
later i decided to search this very mailing list archive, finding
lo and behold, `ice-9` _is_ in fact the stdlib :). As a Guile
newbie myself, i agree that it'd be immensely easier to grok
what's going on if we're presented with module names such as
Christine suggests.
I didn't think to mention my confusion because.. well, i'm just
the peanut gallery. But i won't miss the opportunity to say "i
agree"! :)
All the best to everyone reading,
paul
