On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:27 PM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: >> One big group is users that care about records, a module system, and >> Unicode in addition to R5RS. They are not language designers they are >> users. > > I fall into this camp, but it mattered very much to me just how Unicode > worked, so I lobbied hard till the R6RS editors got it right, or near > enough right for me.
> Does that make me a language designer? I think > so, at least in the small. I am not trying to split hairs just for the sake of being difficult. Rather I am trying to talk through what it means to "serve the community" :). If you cared that R6RS as a language had working Unicode support but did not care about how it was implemented; I would say that you were an expert user. An expert group member might have worried about memory overhead (as in a recent thread) while providing working Unicode support. This is of course my according to my subjective, unwritten criteria. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
