> * What CL calls a system is roughly analogous to what most other languages call a package.*

Or a crate, or an artifact, or a module, or a gem, and there's probably other variations I can't remember off-hand.

> * What CL calls a package is what other languages call a namespace.*

Or a module, or a package, or... actually, I don't know what Perl or Ruby call it. I believe C calls it a header, but that's not quite the same thing as a package.

Turns out naming things is difficult (as well as cache invalidation, off-by-one errors concurrency, and).

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mtdewcmu 2 days ago | parent [-]

Racket has packages (1) that work quite well. Chicken Scheme has Eggs.

(1) https://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/index.html

	▲	tmtvl 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Eggs? Goodness. And I believe Chicken is R5RS as well, so I don't know what they call libraries/modules/packages/whatever (in R6RS and R7RS they're called libraries, but R5RS didn't specify anything). I expect Racket to call them libraries considering the Racket/R6RS connections.