[r6rs-discuss] I hereby reverse

[Thomas Lord]

I reverse my position.

Unless a majority of editors ask for people to vote "no," then I intend 
to vote "yes" to ratification.   I hope others will, as well.

I arrived at this reversal by "going meta," myself.   I stepped back and 
thought about the past several months of discussion as a document of its 
own -- a de facto appendix to the draft.   We've had good discussions 
about a wide range of issues that represent the frontier of the 
evolution of Scheme.    Many "sides" of each issue have been well 
presented and well argued.   A very wide variety of perspectives have 
been present.  In my view, in all of the hard cases, the outcome of that 
debate is inconclusive, yet the draft represents genuine forward 
progress and manages capture, simply, many widely agreeable advances.

The root of the title of the proposed document is "Report".    The 
series may be understood as an exercise in journalism.    The drafting 
process has (beneficially) helped to set the zeitgeist in the Scheme 
world.   The draft document itself largely expresses the resulting 
zeitgeist.     As a "Report" of where Scheme is at:  the draft is a very 
good, useful document.

It is surely imperfect in some tweaky details, on its own terms.     The 
language of the draft is not, in a precise form, likely to take the 
Scheme world by storm and displace all variations.    Yet, yes, in much 
more than just broad outline it is on many right tracks and it is an 
accurate report of "where we are," and where people are heading.

So, I am persuaded.   "yes."

Regards,
-t