[r6rs-discuss] Proposed features for small Scheme, part 1: a stake in the ground

[John Cowan]

Ben Goetter scripsit:

> In its 3.0 incarnation, Gambit spent more than three years without
> an external release.  It wasn't dead, only restin'.  One man projects
> often work that way.

Fair enough.

> There is also higher-level external documentation, qv 
> ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/qobi/fdlcc.pdf

Thanks for the pointer; I look forward to reading it, or trying to.
The top of p. 31 is not promising.

In addition, the paper seems to be about only one aspect of the compiler.
I certainly wouldn't want to learn the code, let alone try to maintain
it, on the strength of that paper alone.

> R4RS is alive and well and living in Peru.

It's alive and well at the core of all R5RS and R6RS implementations.

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