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Next: <a href="SRFI_002d0.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">SRFI-0 - cond-expand</a>, Up: <a href="SRFI-Support.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">SRFI Support Modules</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="About-SRFI-Usage-1"><span>7.5.1 About SRFI Usage<a class="copiable-link" href="#About-SRFI-Usage-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
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<p>SRFI support in Guile is currently implemented partly in the core
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library, and partly as add-on modules. That means that some SRFIs are
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automatically available when the interpreter is started, whereas the
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other SRFIs require you to use the appropriate support module
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explicitly.
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<p>There are several reasons for this inconsistency. First, the feature
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checking syntactic form <code class="code">cond-expand</code> (see <a class="pxref" href="SRFI_002d0.html">SRFI-0 - cond-expand</a>) must be
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available immediately, because it must be there when the user wants to
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check for the Scheme implementation, that is, before she can know that
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it is safe to use <code class="code">use-modules</code> to load SRFI support modules. The
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second reason is that some features defined in SRFIs had been
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implemented in Guile before the developers started to add SRFI
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implementations as modules (for example SRFI-13 (see <a class="pxref" href="SRFI_002d13.html">SRFI-13 - String Library</a>)). In
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the future, it is possible that SRFIs in the core library might be
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factored out into separate modules, requiring explicit module loading
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when they are needed. So you should be prepared to have to use
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<code class="code">use-modules</code> someday in the future to access SRFI-13 bindings. If
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you want, you can do that already. We have included the module
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<code class="code">(srfi srfi-13)</code> in the distribution, which currently does nothing,
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but ensures that you can write future-safe code.
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<p>Generally, support for a specific SRFI is made available by using
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modules named <code class="code">(srfi srfi-<var class="var">number</var>)</code>, where <var class="var">number</var> is the
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number of the SRFI needed. Another possibility is to use the command
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line option <code class="code">--use-srfi</code>, which will load the necessary modules
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automatically (see <a class="pxref" href="Invoking-Guile.html">Invoking Guile</a>).
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