[r6rs-discuss] string->number

[John Cowan]

Thomas Lord scripsit:

> Perhaps if I write a Scheme with a thoroughly customizable
> top-level environment I can support R6 but the thing
> I'm so supporting ("R6") is not therefore a good 
> definition of Scheme.   And perhaps I can similarly 
> support a Scheme in an R6 library - but even then, 
> R6 must be understood as something other than Scheme.

The term "Scheme" has no meaning.  (To be precise, it used to have no
operational meaning; now it has no denotational meaning.)
But as a pragmaticist, I affirm that a term means whatever its
effects on the hearer are.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
        --Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown)