(guile.info.gz) About SRFI Usage

 
 39.1 About SRFI Usage
 =====================
 
 SRFI support in Guile is currently implemented partly in the core
 library, and partly as add-on modules.  That means that some SRFIs are
 automatically available when the interpreter is started, whereas the
 other SRFIs require you to use the appropriate support module
 explicitly.
 
    There are several reasons for this inconsistency.  First, the feature
 checking syntactic form `cond-expand' ( SRFI-0) must be
 available immediately, because it must be there when the user wants to
 check for the Scheme implementation, that is, before she can know that
 it is safe to use `use-modules' to load SRFI support modules.  The
 second reason is that some features defined in SRFIs had been
 implemented in Guile before the developers started to add SRFI
 implementations as modules (for example SRFI-6 ( SRFI-6)).  In
 the future, it is possible that SRFIs in the core library might be
 factored out into separate modules, requiring explicit module loading
 when they are needed.  So you should be prepared to have to use
 `use-modules' someday in the future to access SRFI-6 bindings.  If you
 want, you can do that already.  We have included the module `(srfi
 srfi-6)' in the distribution, which currently does nothing, but ensures
 that you can write future-safe code.
 
    Generally, support for a specific SRFI is made available by using
 modules named `(srfi srfi-NUMBER)', where NUMBER is the number of the
 SRFI needed.  Another possibility is to use the command line option
 `--use-srfi', which will load the necessary modules automatically
 ( Invoking Guile).
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