[r6rs-discuss] R7RS: What is in it for the implementers? (was Which Schemes?)

[John Cowan]

Grant Rettke scripsit:

> Do you mean by compromise?

Sometimes by creativity.  "We didn't provide <foo>, but we provide <bar>,
from which <foo> is easily defined."

> There were plenty of implementers who said flat out that they wouldn't
> implement R6RS if they didn't like it, and ultimately, they held true
> to it, as did the implementers who said that they would implement R6RS
> even the didn't like it.

But none, I think, who said they wouldn't implement it even if they
liked it -- just on principle, to keep the language small.

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