[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] nothing is said to be safe

[John Cowan]

William D Clinger scripsit:

> If the report requires all programs to be safe, then
> R6RS-conforming implementations will be forbidden to
> execute programs that link with libraries written in
> unsafe languages such as C, C++, and assembly language.

Such programs are not conformant to R6RS; that is, you cannot
transport them to every conformant implementation.  That is
not to say that implementations should disallow them.

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