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

AndrevanTonder andre at het.brown.edu
Thu Nov 2 10:57:12 EST 2006


On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:

> There is no abstraction to break and no forging going on in the previous 
> example.  The symbol little is the symbol little, regardless of how you got 
> it.

I agree completely.  While the syntax "(endianness ---)" might give 
the appearance of providing an abstraction, this is a false illusion.  Given 
this, I don't see why it is occupying useful namespace.

Cheers
Andre



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