[r6rs-discuss] meta r6rs

[Aubrey Jaffer]

 | Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:40:21 -0700
 | From: Thomas Lord <lord at emf.net>
 | 
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 | Publication as a SRFI, not as R6, would restore the community's
 | ability to work side by side.     SRFI's are non-rival.   If
 | some in the community doesn't like the way a particular SRFI
 | is going, they are free to create an alternative SRFI.   Neither
 | SRFI is more legitimate than the other, but probably one will
 | eventually emerge as more popular than the other.   Contrast
 | that with R6RS:  if a splinter group decided to publish their
 | own, alternative R6RS, immediately the question would arise
 | "which R6RS is legitimately titled?   which is the authority?"
 | The splinter group would most likely be disregarded on that
 | basis alone.

The current form of the R6RS library system would seem to be
incompatible with SRFIs.  Because the top-level form in an R6RS
library file must be (library ...), there is no opportunity for an
enclosing COND-EXPAND form.

Aren't R6RS library files are incompatible with R5RS files?