[r6rs-discuss] "Steering"

[Michael Sperber]

David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> writes:

> The deadline had no connection to anything other than the groups own
> desire to bring the process to a halt in a certain time frame.

This is correct.  We were well over the original deadline (i.e. the one
set before Kent Dybvig took over) already, and I think we all had a
desire to get back to our lives, which we had planned to do much
earlier.  In contrast, witness R5RS, which took something like 6 years
to write up, and, while Richard Kelsey did a magnificent job correcting
many of the mistakes that are in R4RS, it still contained some.  I share
your desire to improve the report over time, but I don't believe that
prolonging the process would have significantly changed its reception.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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