Guillermo, On 23-Feb-2009 Guillermo J. Rozas wrote: > On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:56 AM, leppie wrote: >> So which major ones are ignoring it actually? >> >> The major ones I know of, all support or plan to support it. >> >> So who do we have left you consider major? >> >> For those that support R6RS, most implementations are very >> portable. I dont think you can say about the portability between >> the other non-R6RS ones on a R5RS level. > > Perhaps my memory is faulty, but I had heard (annecdotally) that > Larceny and Marc Feeley's were not going to conform. > > Neither is MIT Scheme, but it is no longer under active development > or use, so I'm not sure you'd agree that it was a major > implementation, and it's lack of active development could explain > (although it does not) the fact that it won't conform.
On the contrary, MIT Scheme is actively maintained and used, and Chris Hanson, one of the candidates, is its maintainer. I don't know why people think MIT Scheme is inactive, especially given the recent snapshot that was released and the somewhat active CVS log. Maybe people really do not know who Chris Hanson is? -- 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))) ++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
