2011/10/14 Hendrik Boom
<hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
Well, I found other items on gmane's archive of this mailing list. IT
looks as if the answer is that Gambit itself doesn't provide modules at
all, despite the mention in the Tour of Scheme in Gambit. But it seems
that there exists a completely separate module facility that can be used
with it. With its own installation instructions. And by the way, one
should use (import ...) instead of (use ...)
Indeed.
Gambit as a Scheme environment is with benefit separated from module handling functionality, as module systems tend not to be 'universal' 'one-fits-everything' solutions.
A Tour of Scheme in Gambit is intended to give a programmer an introductory glimpse of practical use of Gambit. In total one short chapter only touches Black Hole, as to show that you can do modules in Scheme and the benefit of it. This is one of in total two mentionings of Gambit-external libraries in the document, the other one being ssax-sxml.
Really, this information shouldn't be that hard to find.
With the generality of Scheme comes that the amount of possible setups are infinite.
Thus the strong separation language environment from module system, module system from libraries.
I understand you may have suggestions for improvement on the documentation about second or third of these, if so feel free to post these when you have them.
And is there a good reason why so many manuals on the gambit web site are
in pdf, odt, and doc formats and not in the obvious web-friendly html?
What's in these formats are the documents "A Tour of Scheme in Gambit" and the Black Hole documentation, neither of which are Gambit manuals but solely Gambit-related documents, similar to what's collected on the Dumping grounds.
Those docs were written in this format since it suited them at least of the time of writing. The further document is intended for print solely so for it a format other than html fits.
The latter one could with benefit be switched from odt as source format to html; you are the first one who asks for this.
I'll report again when I've worked through the BlackHole installation.
In relation with Black Hole, that you already downloaded at
https://github.com/pereckerdal/blackhole , there is a bundle of libraries that can be used within the (std) module resolver at
https://github.com/pereckerdal/blackhole-libs , also check some updates posted on this ml the 18:th of may this year.
These are for the master branch. With the syntactictower branch of Black Hole, a set of SRFI:s are bundled, and this abovementioned bundle of libraries.
Brgds