[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Dropping enumerations library?

[Michael Sperber]

Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum at cs.indiana.edu> writes:

> True, but what is the criterion for drawing the line between what to
> be included and what to be excluded?

That is a very good question, and I suspect the answer is as much
determined by quirks of history than anything else.  I don't feel
qualified to give a general answer.

Historically, enumerations were added at the point the policy issues I
described came up---for the bytes and the I/O libraries.  Why were
bytes and I/O included?  I/O was included for any number of good
reasons that I hope I don't have to cite here, and bytes objects were
put in to enable binary I/O.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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