On 8/15/07, Aubrey Jaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  | Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:18:31 -0500
>  | From: Chongkai Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  |
>  | Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
>  | > Can R5.97R Scheme be extended to support SRFI-63 arrays?
>  |
>  | One story: an unusable version of SRFI-63 was once put in PLT
>  | Scheme for about 1 year, yet not any complain was heard.
>
> That was not my doing.

No, it was mine.  I wrote an implementation of SRFI 63 (for both PLT
and Scheme 48) so as to really understand the specification (for which
I was an editor).  It turned up a number of bugs in the reference
implementation and SLIB (one and the same), which were subsequently
patched (I think revisions 1.36-1.43[*] were mostly due to the
correspondence I was having with Aubrey at this time).  According to
Chongkai (I haven't confirmed), the PLT implementation had bugs in the
contract I attached to the module.  What this has to do with the
merits of SRFI 63 or the draft R6RS, I have no idea.

>  | If now there is a vote for SRFI-63, I will definitely vote for no.
>
> I am sorry that you hold SRFI-63 responsible for the actions of
> someone unknown to its author.

Indeed.  My own inadequacies shouldn't have any bearing on the matter.

David

* http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/slib/array.scm?root=slib&view=log

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