On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 22:59 -0800, Elf wrote: > I do not know of any other serious standards process that has intentionally > operated amidst off-topic ramblings, spam, and newbie questions, without > any form of moderation (ie, usenet). There may be a reason for this.
Probably the reason (imo) is that your pejoratives are misplaced. That most -- *most* -- of the discussion is not "off topic" and that the universal skepticism about this standards effort and in some cases the deeper deconstruction of the effort (and attempt to push things to a better track) is, well, more wise. If R7 lacks stupid pretense, it might come out kinda good. But it's hard for R7 to lack pretense while simultaneously preserving face, for some. Of course, R7 should display some speculative pretense, just like the earlier Rs. It should just be new and updated pretense, unafraid of negating earlier pretenses. "It's a report, not a standard." -t _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
