[r6rs-discuss] The library name "rnrs" is overly precious

Ben Goetter goetter at mazama.net
Mon Jul 2 13:52:43 EDT 2007


>    RRS would be more accurate.  The Revised Reports are not the only 
> Scheme standards.

I don't see it as unreasonable for the current standard-in-formation 
(and its heirs, successors, and assigns) to claim the name of "Scheme." 
  Should IEEE 1178-1990 ever evolve to something approaching R6RS and 
demand a separate top-level namespace for its own standard libraries, 
some symbol prefixed by /ieee/, e.g. /ieee-scheme/ or /ieee-1178-1990/, 
would be a much more reasonable name for that hypothetical standard than 
the hoary /r(n)rs/ joke is for this one.  All IMO of course.

Though I instead expect that IEEE 1178-1990 (R2010) would consecrate 
some fork or descendent of the current process and so use e.g. (scheme 
base (7 1)) as opposed to an all-new namespace.

Ben




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