bug#65363: Missing support for (library ...) match condition in 'cond-expand'

Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Zhu Zihao <[email protected]> writes:

> In R7RS, page 14, section 4.2.1 Conditionals. The form 'cond-expand' can
> accept following conditions
>
> ```
> A <feature requirement> takes one of the following forms:
>
> - <feature identifier>
> - (library <library name>)
> - (and <feature requirement> ...)
> - (or <feature requirement> ...)
> - (not <feature requirement>)
> ```
>
> The form (library <library name>) is used to test whether a R7RS library
> named <library name> exists or not. For example:
>
> ```
> (cond-expand
>  ((library (srfi srfi-1))
>   (display "Yes, we have SRFI-1.\n")))
> ```
>
> However, this form is currently not supported by Guile. Supporting this
> form can help Guile use portable R7RS library more smoothly.

I'm not sure what doesn't work with the above example; it should work
when used within a define-library, per this 2020 commit:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
commit fd2ffc649c2d08639c2ac41c25e4ebdbeb4b151d
Date:   Sun Jan 12 20:14:30 2020 +0100

    Support R7RS define-library
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I've found it had a few omissions, which I've corrected locally, such as
not handling 'else' clauses or (srfi N) names, but your example should
have worked, AFAIK.

If trying 'cond-expand' from the REPL, you'll want to ,use (scheme base)
to get the newer cond-expand definition shadow the SRFI 0 one that is
defined in (guile).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.