[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] SRFI import format

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Dave Herman <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> A variation on this approach would be to say that all SRFI's are
> associated with a particular RnRS. The SRFI's that exist are R5RS,
> and once R6RS becomes official, SRFI numbering restarts at 1 and
> all new SRFI's will be associated with R6RS.

Reusing SRFI numbers will cause confusion and make web searches
harder. And there is no benefit. SRFI numbers will not overflow
any reasonable fixnum range in the next few thousands of years
at least.

SRFIs which aren't already compatible with both R5RS and R6RS and
which aren't obsoleted by R6RS may be gradually updated to have
two variants: for R5RS and R6RS. I'm not sure wheter the updated
variant should have the same number or a different number; perhaps
this should depend on how significant are the differences.

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