Re: [Schematics-development] Re: News

[MJ R. <ma...@cl...>]

Noel Welsh <noe...@ya...> wrote:
> There is another option: to implement streams (aka lazy lists) and provide
> operations on them.  E.g. streams-first, stream-rest etc.

How would you do that?  Are all databases going to support this, or will it
require some drivers to generate large data caches?

> [...] I don't think we can guarantee this in general, at least not without
> support from the GC.  I tend towards making this the user's problem. 

So do I, for now.

> Re names.  PLT Scheme has modules so we don't need db: or db- prefixes
> (they use can add this via the module system).  [...]

I agree, but we should add db: when importing in our own code, in most
cases, for compatibility with the upcoming SRFI.

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