Sascha Ziemann <cev...@gmail.com> writes:
> But quote from R7RS page 29: > >> For convenience and ease of use, the >> global Scheme environment in a REPL must not be empty, >> but must start out with at least the bindings provided by >> the base library. Yes I think it's a bug (or at least misleading) that using --r7rs doesn't import (scheme base). I dug around to see what that flag actually does. All it does is call (install-r7rs!), which adds .sld to the load extensions and sets some reader settings. The documentation isn't technically wrong, since there is /a/ base library (notice write isn't missing), it's just that there are several "base" libraries: (guile), (scheme base), and (rnrs base), and the "base library" is referring to the first one. I think it would be ideal for --r7rs to use (scheme base) as the base library and for --r6rs to use (rnrs base) or (rnrs) as the base library.
