John Nowak wrote:
> I would just like to briefly express my intense irritation that an 
> explanation was required only for "no" votes. Those voting yes can do so 
> easily without even reading the draft, while those that wanted to vote no had 
> the pressure of publicly justifying their vote on technical grounds. I would 
> not be surprised if there are many that would have voted "no" in the same way 
> many voted "yes" if a coherent explanation wasn't required.
>
> Requiring explanations either way would have been a start. Requiring 
> explanations for neither would have been the proper way to do it. The only 
> way in which the system used might have been reasonable would have been if 
> the electorate were smaller and precisely chosen. As it is now, there are 
> many people voting yes without any hint either in their explanations (or lack 
> thereof) or in mailing list posts that they've even read the thing. What a 
> joke!
>
>   


And it only passed by 7 votes out of 100, too.

I hope there is an invariant whether it is officially ratified or not:  
end of process;  take it to the SRFI world.

-t


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