[r6rs-discuss] Case sensitivity

leppie xacc.ide at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 12:25:37 EST 2009


From: "Aaron W. Hsu"
> Leppie,
>
> On 23-Feb-2009 leppie wrote:
>> So taking MIT Scheme out of the loop, we are left with Gambit and Bigloo
>> (and Chicken does not really count due to it's lack of a number tower).
>
> Why must everyone take MIT Scheme out of the loop? It's like a terrible
> self-fulfilling prophecy of a very useful Scheme system.
>

Sorry, but I was only going on heresay, I am glad to see it still being 
actively developed  :)

>> So of the 5 major active implementations, 60% supports or plans to 
>> support
>> it (only waiting on Chez).
>
> Chez's next version will support R6RS, and it's mostly finished. I
> believe a Beta is supposed to be out pretty soon. In fact, Chez may have
> better R6RS support very soon than most of the other systems which
> did not start with R6RS.
>

Yeah, I have been waiting quite some time for that, but as Chez almost 
supported the entire R6RS (but with different namings), why is it taking so 
long?

Cheers

leppie 




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