William D Clinger scripsit: > The R6RS process showed little respect for backward > compatibility and prior art, and needed only a 60% > supermajority in a single vote to ratify a pair of > documents.
"Only"? Requiring supermajorities is tantamount to minority rule. I've seen what happens in other communities when there is a baseline document and a 2/3 majority requirement. It becomes almost impossible to muster a 2/3 majority for changing any individual thing in the baseline, which means that whatever small group controls the initial baseline effectively controls the result as well. Granted, a baseline document would probably be externally specified here, some flavor of RnRS. But I favor majority rule, not minority rule. -- He played King Lear as though John Cowan <[email protected]> someone had played the ace. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Eugene Field _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
