I'm still not speaking for the editors, and haven't checked lately to see whether they're still speaking to me...
Aubrey Jaffer quoting me: > | The language described by the draft R6RS cannot be > | implemented by a pure interpreter (*). Lexical checking, > | macro expansion, syntax checking, bound-variable checking, > | and immutability checks are required before any part of a > | program can begin its execution. > > If what you write is true, then SCM will stay at R5RS. To be sure I > understand, can the language described by R4RS and R5RS be implemented > by a "pure interpreter"? Yes. (To acknowledge John Cowan's point, the languages described by R4RS and R5RS can be implemented by a form-at-a-time pure interpreter. The language described by the draft R6RS cannot.) Will _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
