Mikael Djurfeldt <mik...@djurfeldt.com> writes:
> Den ons 9 feb. 2022 21:12Christine Lemmer-Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> > skrev: > >> >> ice-9 -> guile >> -------------- >> >> I think that ice-9 is a weird namespace for "guile's standard library" >> but it's what we have for historical reasons. My 2c: The guile reference manual is worth reading. Early on, I found this: (info "(guile)Status") #+begin_quote ...eventually resulting in the Emacsification of the entire GNU system. Indeed, this is the reason for the naming of the many Guile modules that live in the ‘ice-9’ namespace, a nod to the fictional substance in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Cat’s Cradle, capable of acting as a seed crystal to crystallize the mass of software. #+end_quote It would be a pity to deprecate and/or remove that little bit of culture for the sake of...OTOH, creating a workable system that allowed one to dynamically alias modules would definitely be useful. Leo
