When I try to require both srfi 1 and srfi 26, I get an error message telling me that an identifier has already been imported from a different source

How might i get around that conflict?

@slack1 I recommend using only-in or except-in

Thanks

I see, and require only the things you need to stop conflicts

There’s also prefix-in. Sometimes “the name shows where it came from” can be a readability advantage — for instance in code that’s “stitching together” things from various modules/systems/components. But for these specific srfis that’s likely to be more verbose than you want.

Like I’m guessing you don’t want to write (srfi26:cut cons (+ a 1) srfi26:<>) instead of (cut cons (+ a 1) <>) :smile:

Oh I see, but for a utilities library that could work great

But in say a web app, requiring modules using some prefixes like db:, auth:, email: or whatever might make some of the code read more clearly.

basically arbitrarily nameable imports

Yeah there’s even a require form where you supply a function that can munge the names totally arbitrarily. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

e.g. (require (filtered-in LOLcat-ize-the-names srfi1))

that’s actually amazing lol

although I probably won’t use that power anytime soon

Oh. Ha. I didn’t even realize that LOLcat might be relevant to your interests :grin: