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Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycl
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David A. Wheeler |
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Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle? |
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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:17:15 -0400 (EDT) |
I said:
> > I'd really like for there to be a common spec for Scheme with libraries,
> > etc., and my hope is that R7RS will be that spec.
Ian Price:
> Call me a cynic, but if r6rs couldn't do that, then I don't see how r7rs
> could be given that it actively avoids many important portability questions.
Well, the cynics are often right :-). But I think R7RS is intentionally much
more conservative and R5RS-like. In particular, it's *supposed* to be easy for
an R5RS implementation to move to R7RS. If it's easier to adopt, it's more
likely to be adopted.
Scheme is rediculously non-portable due to its lack of a *standard* library
system. If a standard for *that* could be widely adopted, many other
portability problems would be drastically reduced.
> But we all can dream...
Indeed!
--- David A. Wheeler
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/09/01
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Ian Price, 2012/09/02
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?,
David A. Wheeler <=
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Stefan Israelsson Tampe, 2012/09/02
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/09/02
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Stefan Israelsson Tampe, 2012/09/03
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Mark H Weaver, 2012/09/08
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Stefan Israelsson Tampe, 2012/09/08
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Alex Shinn, 2012/09/08
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Mark H Weaver, 2012/09/08
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, William ML Leslie, 2012/09/10
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Stefan Israelsson Tampe, 2012/09/09
- Re: Will guile support R7RS terminating "equal?" in the presence of cycle?, Stefan Israelsson Tampe, 2012/09/03