Andre van Tonder <andre@het.brown.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Jim Wise wrote:
>
>> John Cowan's suggestion of naming the module-provided forms of
>> these such that they override the corresponding core forms on import (by
>> default) seems a good compromise
>
> 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:))

alternately, if you only want the `match' form (the only form in the
(rnrs match) library that does not override a core form), you could do:

      (import (only (rnrs match) match))

However, I think the details of library/module imports and exports are
on the table for R7RS; not sure if I remember that correctly.

--
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com

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