Re: [Chicken-hackers] too many core modules?

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:57:47AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> It's probably just me, but if I have to write "(use ports files
> data-structures utils extras)" one more
> time, I'll go crazy.
> 
> I think the splitting up of the extras unit was done haphazardly. It
> doesn't really give any
> benefit to split up the library fo chicken extensions, since loading
> one or two eggs will drag in
> most of them anyway. I think it's ok to keep the SRFIs separate.

Agreed.

> Therefore I'd like to introduce a new library unit (say
> "chicken-stuff" [*]) that for the time
> being just loads the other units and provides the necessary imports.
[...]
>
> [*] a lame name - any suggestions are welcome

I know! Let's call it "pretty-big"!

</tongue-in-cheek>

> Is it ok to make this change, or does somebody see a problem with this?

Explicitly listing all units that are already loaded in core anyway is
a bit silly, indeed.  If it actually causes some code to be loaded, it
makes sense to have to import it.

Cheers,
PEter
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