Re: [Scheme-reports] [r6rs-discuss] [scheme-reports] Scheme pattern matching & R*RS Andre van Tonder (21 Jan 2011 23:07 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Scheme pattern matching & R*RS Aaron W. Hsu (22 Jan 2011 04:03 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] [r6rs-discuss] [scheme-reports] Scheme pattern matching & R*RS Andre van Tonder 21 Jan 2011 23:07 UTC

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Jim Wise wrote:

> Andre van Tonder <andre@het.brown.edu> writes:
>
>> Just note, FWIW, that R6RS library semantics have no such thing as
>> "overriding". You would need to do a complicated EXCEPT import to exclude
>> the usual WG1 meanings.
>
> Actually, (prefix ...) is both safer than (except ..._) (a particular
> implementation may have additional forms in the library beyond what's
> required by WG2), and simpler to use:
>
>       (import (prefix (rnrs match) match:))

They were talking about overriding LAMBDA, etc.

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