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Re: [Scheme-reports] "module" vs. "library"



On 07/07/11 18:52, John Cowan wrote:

> As I've pointed out before, application programmers don't really need to
> make their code portable between Schemes any more, because each Scheme
> (with a very few exceptions) is itself highly portable.  It's library
> programmers that really need and benefit from standardization.

+1

An app that doesn't use any non-portable features (GUIs? Means of
packaging apps for distribution, even?) is often rather boring.

This is also why I'd like to leave REPL semantics vague...

ABS

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