Arthur,

On 20-Feb-2009 Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:
> I hope that future steering committee members will consider this
> guideline for future Scheme standards: Let's not include any language
> feature or library API in the spec. that hasn't been thoroughly tested
> in practice in several real implementations.  There are many features
> that sound terrific in principle but turn out to be terrible in
> practice.

I was just going to say something similar.

(+ (expt 2 +inf.0))

-- 
Aaron W. Hsu <[email protected]> | <http://www.sacrideo.us>
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat
+++++++++++++++ ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) ++++++++++++++

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