[r6rs-discuss] Interpreters need not apply?

[Jon Wilson]

Hi Aziz,

Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
>> Wouldn't this then make the implementation non-R6RS conforming?
>
> Not necessarily.  Implementations can provide implementation-specific 
> and nonstandard features.  Such features may be completely missing 
> from the report (gui, threads, sockets, etc.) or even contradict the 
> report (lazy evaluation, static typing, no macros by default).  An 
> implementation is R6RS-conforming as long as there is some way of 
> getting the R6RS-required features.
Fair enough.  Thanks for clarifying that for me.
Regards,
Jon