Hello all, This is unusual as it is not really a Guile-specific message, but I was reading recently about the r7rs process and then about SRFIs, and I had an idea.
I think there should be a mailing list for people who implement Schemes, to sort of coordinate our non-standard features. For instance, you could email the list and say "hey, Guile is thinking of adding a unicode library with this interface. Does anyone else want to converge on an interface together?" Or better yet, "does anyone want to cooperate in the making of this library?" (But that's less likely because of license concerns, I suppose.) As far as I can tell, there is nothing serving this purpose right now. The SRFI process *begins* with a complete interface design, which doesn't work for work in progress. The rnrs standardization process only standardizes things that a lot of implementations have, so that wouldn't work for this. This would make things a lot nicer for people who use Scheme, because more programs would be portable. It might also make life better for people who implement Scheme, because it could make sharing work a lot easier, and thus make every Scheme implementation better. The implementation of this idea is trivial. I could set up a Google group in five minutes, or any one of the Schemes which already host their own mailing lists could add this. So my question is, do people think this is a good idea or not? If so, I will do it. Noah
