On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Alan Watson wrote: >> we should try to rectify the >> backwards compatibility issues that were introduced in R6RS > > The genie is now out of the bottle. > > If the R7RS reverts to case-insensitivity, it will be breaking > backwards compatibility with the R6RS. So, in order to revert to > case-insensitivity, you have to argue that backwards compatibility > with the R6RS is not worthwhile. But since backwards compatibility > is the most convincing argument for case-insensitivity, you've just > blown your case.
Unless you assume, as apparently many have done, that R6RS is a dead end that has not had very wide acceptance, with major implementations stating that they would ignore it. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
