[r6rs-discuss] Lexical Syntax

[Neil Jerram]

Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> writes:

> It certainly would be trivial to write in R6RS Scheme.  I was able to
> hack the R5RS reader and writer that come with Scheme 48 to run in
> Ikarus in about 20 minutes.

[...]

> It's only a proof-of-concept, with no claims as to its correctness,
> completeness, usefulness, or R6RS compliance.

[...]

> (As well as fixing the 80,000+
> other failing test cases a decent test suite can probably be made to
> find.)

I'm sorry, but that's just bizarre.  There's no merit in something
being trivial if you have no confidence that it is correct.

(Or have I misunderstood you?)

      Neil