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On Modules in Scheme: Principles and Proposals
- To: rrrs-authors@mc.lcs.mit.edu
- Subject: On Modules in Scheme: Principles and Proposals
- From: ramsdell%linus@mitre-bedford.ARPA
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 11:35:54 EDT
- In-Reply-To: Pavel's message of Tue, 14 Jun 88 10:31:25 PDT
- Posted-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 11:35:54 EDT
- Posted-From: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
One feature I do not like about ML's module facility of 1984 is that
mutual recursion is not allowed between objects in different modules.
Without modules, programmers can freely define mutually recursive
objects. As a principle, it seems to me that the use of modules
should not change this capability. Jonathan told me his proposal
could be changed to include this capability. As a result, proposals
based on ML's modules seem to be the leading contenders for modules in
Scheme.
John