[Chicken-hackers] Proposal for procedures currently undecided regarding module

[felix . winkelmann]

Hi!

We looked at [1] once more, and to speed up the modularization task
for CHICKEN 5, here is a proposal from us regarding the undecided identifiers.

Comments are welcome.

(chicken base): leave as is, but adding
    alist-ref alist-update alist-update! rassoc
    atom? butlast chop compress flatten intersperse join list-of? tail?
    constantly complement compose conjoin disjoin each flip identity o
    use require-library require-extension

move "quit" + "reset" + "reset-handler" from (chicken base) to (chicken repl).
move "print-error-message" + "error-message" from (chicken base) to (chicken 
condition).

drop: any?  (can be replaced with "constantly")

(chicken blob): (taken from (chicken base))
     blob->string string->blob blob? blob=? blob-size make-blob

(chicken plist):
    remprop! get put! symbol-plist get-properties

(chicken memory representation):
    block-ref block-set! extend-procedure extended-procedure? 
make-record-instance mutate-procedure! number-of-bytes number-of-slots 
object-become! object-copy procedure-data record->vector record-instance-length 
record-instance-slot record-instance-slot-set! record-instance-type 
record-instance? set-procedure-data! vector-like?

(chicken type):
    : the assume define-type define-specialization compiler-typecase

Use these as proposed in [1]:

(chicken sort):
    merge sort sort! sorted? topological-sort

(chicken string):
    ->string conc string-chop string-chomp string-compare3 string-compare3-ci 
reverse-string-append string-intersperse string-split string-translate 
string-translate* substring=? substring-ci=? substring-index substring-index-ci 
reverse-list->string


felix + Peter

[1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/core-libraries-reorganization