[r6rs-discuss] Which Schemes?

[John Cowan]

Joe Marshall scripsit:

> They can in the sense that I am referring to.  If PLT, MIT, Gauche,
> Guile, Chicken, Bigloo, Gambit, Larceny, Scheme48, SCM, JScheme and
> Kawa all decided to adopt some particular feature, you can bet the
> rest would soon follow.

Well, maybe and maybe not.  Looking at S^5, there are still quite a lot
of low-end Schemes with few or no SRFIs supported, despite the availability
of reference implementations.  (That doesn't factor in the possibility
that they support SLIB, though.)

> VSCM, S7, SIOD, Iron Scheme and dfsch were to adopt some particular
> feature, it would be far less certain that the rest would soon follow.

True.

-- 
An observable characteristic is not necessarily         John Cowan
a functional requirement.  --John Hudson                cowan at ccil.org