1 Dylan Language Extensions

1.2 Using Functional Developer's language extensions

There are a number of ways to use Functional Developer's language extensions in your applications.

A few extensions have become part of the dylan library. You can read about these extensions in Section 1.3 on page 2.

The majority of the extensions are in the common-extensions module of the common-extensions library. That library also exports a number of smaller modules that contain other basic facilities such as simplified formatting (simple-format), pseudo-random integer generation (simple-random), and object finalization (finalization).

Functional Developer provides a convenience library, common-dylan, that combines the dylan and common-extensions libraries to provide a convenient "dialect" of Dylan, exported from the module common-dylan:

define library common-dylan
  use dylan, export: all;
  use common-extensions, export: all;
  export common-dylan;
end module;

define module common-dylan
  use dylan, export: all;
  use common-extensions, export: all;
end module;