[r6rs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: R5RS is not a baseline]

[John Cowan]

Ray Dillinger scripsit:

> There's a compelling case for a scheme-oid lisp with a 
> "strings as immutable values" interpretation where 
> characters are just strings that happen to be short.  

+1

> It would be cleaner semantics than R6, but such 
> a large semantic change and breaks so much existing 
> code that I can't imagine that it's likely to be a 
> reasonable direction to go. 

Also +1, alas.

I'd like to see a lot more immutability in Scheme.  You can readily
construct mutability from immutability with a box, but not vice versa.

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