[r6rs-discuss] an essay on language design

[Anton van Straaten]

William D Clinger wrote:
> The essay that follows was sent to r6rs-discuss at r6rs.org
> on Tue Jul 10 06:52:31 2007.  On 25 July, I noticed that
> the version of this essay that was posted to the official
> archive of that list had been truncated; see
> http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2007-July/003080.html
> 
> I am therefore reposting the complete essay, in exactly
> the form that I originally sent to r6rs-discuss at r6rs.org.
> In case the problem reoccurs, the complete essay is also
> available on my personal web site at
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/R6RS/essay.txt

The Mailman software that runs the list was set to a message body limit 
of 64KB[*].  I've now lifted that limit.

> I apologize for failing to notice this problem earlier.

Ditto.

Anton

[*] Apparently based on the belief that mailing lists should be designed 
not to allow piling word on top of word, but to impose restrictions that 
make the use of additional words impossible.