Re: [ANN] CHICKEN 6.0.0 rerlease candidate available

On Fri May 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM CEST, Artyom Bologov wrote:
> Hi y=E2=80=99all,
>
> Is having bytevector-related procedures in the default REPL environment
> planned? Seems reasonable if focusing on R^7RS compatibility.

Currently the default environment is the same as in CHICKEN 5, for
compatibility reasons. This does not include the bindings that
have moved into the scheme.base module. This is not ideal, but=20
currently the case, both to keep (some) compatibility for Scheme
scripts and to simplify bootstrapping. So I recommend adding
an "(import (scheme base))" in your .csirc if you want all
those bindings in the default environment.

For application programs using modules is recommended anyway,
where you explicitly import what you need.


cheers,
felix