--- This message is a formal comment which was submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], following the requirements described at: http://www.r6rs.org/process.html --- submitter's name: Aubrey Jaffer submitter's email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] type of issue: Defect priority: Major R6RS component: All version of the report: 5.92 one-sentence summary of the issue: Scheme-6 should be differentiated from earlier versions full description of the issue:
Many unsupported and weakly supported Scheme implementations, and possibly some supported ones, will remain at R5RS and call themselves Scheme for years to come. If both R5RS and R6RS implementations and code are described simply as Scheme, then the confusion caused by the incompatibility between Scheme and Scheme-6 will reflect poorly on the language and be an obstacle to Scheme's wider acceptance. Because R6RS is a major, incompatible change from earlier Reports, occurrences of the word "Scheme" in R6RS should be changed to "Scheme-6" when the aspect being discussed is incompatible with R5RS. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
