[gambit-list] A newbie's question

Christian von Essen christian at mvonessen.de
Sun Jul 8 06:47:16 EDT 2007


Hi,

I'm relative new to scheme and chose gambit because of its performance
and its debugger over the other implementations. I'm impressed by both
features. Especially the debugger is pretty much unique in the scheme
systems till under development. There was on this list a discussion
about (a) a module system for gambit and (b) a package distribution
facility with packages called "gems". I wanted to ask about the current
development status of both. Was the package system abandoned for "snow"
system? Has the development of the module system come to a halt?

Personally, I think that a gambit specific package distribution system
would help gambit's development a lot, as I am not good enough to hack
gambit directly, but probably good enough to write a package.

I envision something like chicken's eggs, of course.

But before such a sytem can become useful, a module system is almost
required. I read about gambit's namespaces (why are they not documented,
anyway?), and as others have stated, it provides a base on which a
module system could be written. Is there any plan to do that?

As we all now, the R6RS process is ongoing. Does gambit plan to adopt
the standard? If not, could you please shortly explain why?

A lot of question, and I hope that someone finds time to answer them.

Christian von Essen



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