[r6rs-discuss] R6 counterproposal

[Robby Findler]

On 5/25/07, Thomas Lord <lord at emf.net> wrote:
> Robby Findler wrote:
> > On 5/25/07, Thomas Lord <lord at emf.net> wrote:
> >> Had Scheme been liberalized in the direction
> >> of FEXPRs and first class environments a few years back, by now,
> >> there'd be a lot of interesting R&D in on-line incremental compilation
> >> of Scheme.
> >
> > That seems extremely unlikely to me. Anything that doesn't at least
> > have some connection to the typed orthodoxy is already essentially
> > impossible to get published these days (a recent submission to ICFP on
> > macros got a 10 out of 10 from one reviewer but was still rejected).
> >
> > My guess is that what you suggest would have likely made Scheme even
> > less relevant to the PL research community than it currently is.
>
> If I understand correctly, you are basically explaining why "impossible
> to get
> published" is an increasingly irrelevant metric.

:)

Robby