[r6rs-discuss] Implicitly Concurrent Scheme

[John Cowan]

Antonio Vieiro scripsit:

> Aubrey has requested the restriction to be removed, so let's remove it. 
> And if someone has something to say in *favour* of the restriction to be 
> kept in the report then I'd like to see a serious reason for it to be 
> kept (I haven't seen none yet).
> 
> After all that's the spirit of Scheme: removing superfluous features and 
> restrictions, isn't it?

No.  The meaning of the celebrated paragraph, as I explained before, is to
remove restrictions on *programmers*.  This is a restriction on programmers
whose purpose is to provide freedom to implementations.

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