[gambit-list] R7RS libraries and udem-dlteam/libs
Lassi Kortela
lassi at lassi.io
Sat Nov 2 04:43:10 EDT 2019
> I stumbled upon https://github.com/udem-dlteam/libs/ but:
Great. I didn't know it was public :) It's mostly (but not exclusively)
SRFIs for now.
> A) There is no tests
Work in progress :)
A lot of SRFIs don't have many tests. It might be nice to gather a big,
up-to-date test suite for all SRFIs. Or keep up-to-date tests in each
SRFI's repo with the sample implementation.
> B) There is no doc
All except one of the current ones are SRFI implementations, so the SRFI
is the documentation.
> C) The layout of the repository is as far as I can tell:
>
> libs/srfi/1/1.sld
>
> That would me that srfi 1 is importable with:
>
> (import (srfi 1 1))
>
> which looks odd. Maybe I misunderstood something.
Gambit's lookup rules allow either foo.sld or foo/foo.sld to be imported
with (import (foo)). This may be unusual among R7RS Schemes.
> D) There is not (scheme fu) libraries
They are in the lib/scheme directory Gambit's main repo:
<https://github.com/gambit/gambit/tree/master/lib/scheme>
It also has a lib/srfi directory:
<https://github.com/gambit/gambit/tree/master/lib/srfi>
Most of the SRFI implementations from udem-dlteam/libs will probably be
merged into Gambit's main repo once they have been tested enough; libs
is mostly for work-in-progress stuff.
> E) Can someone add a dummy test for a dummy library so that I can see
> how to run recent gambit with R7RS? Here is an example of such thing:
> https://github.com/amirouche/arew-scheme/blob/master/src/tests-tests.scm
Gambit has a build-in test framework but I haven't used it yet. We also
plan to implement SRFI 64 (A Scheme API for test suites) using the
built-in framework.
> F) While I am at it, does gambit new module system support
> introspection or reflection?
I don't know about this one, but it's at least possible to find all the
symbols accessible in the current environment:
<https://misc.lassi.io/2019/gambit-apropos.scm>
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