[r6rs-discuss] [ANN] scheme-reports.org

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Mon Aug 24 17:04:43 EDT 2009


Thomas Lord scripsit:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:39 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > high barriers
> > to removing IEEE Scheme features from small Scheme.

> Oh, see, I heard (cough cough started cough) a rumor
> that the community was generally agreeable to something
> much more minimal than even IEEE Scheme for small scheme.

Well, you can do whatever you like, but WG 1's charter says:

# Existing features of IEEE Scheme may be removed only if a strong case
# can be made that they are fundamentally flawed.

-- 
John Cowan    cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion
that optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitive
activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity,
but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be
taken into account. --Ecclesiastes 9:11, Orwell/Brown version



More information about the r6rs-discuss mailing list