Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On 08Oct2001 04:32PM (-0700), Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> 
> R5RS only had to pass the review of a small, self-appointed committee
> -- whose perspectives did not represent those of all implementors, and
> did not represent those with an interest in closely related
> technology, such as Common Lisp, or even, dare I say it, Emacs.

Guy L. Steele, the primary author of the Common Lisp standard, is also
one of the RnRS authors. I've read some historical notes recently (on
a discussion on comp.lang.scheme) where he strongly urged the RnRS
group to make #f and '() distinct, and called the #f / '() equivalence
in Common Lisp "a mistake".

 - Maciej