| From: Joe Marshall <[email protected]>
 | Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:55:36 -0700
 | 
 | On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Aubrey Jaffer<[email protected]> wrote:
 | >
 | > The number of SRFIs supported by the current release would be a good
 | > metric of an implementation.
 | 
 | Yes, but it seems that the SRFIs themselves should be weighted in
 | some way.  For instance, SRFI 6 (Basic String Ports) is nearly
 | universal, so an implementation that omitted SRFI 6 should be
 | penalized.  But SRFI 21 is only supported by Gambit.

In your first message you pleaded for a better metric:

 > Subject: [r6rs-discuss] Temerity
 > Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:26:15 -0700
 > ...
 > Metric A sucks.  It cannot be independently verified, it's
 > relevancy cannot be determined, the bias is unknown.  It has
 > exactly one virtue: it has a value.  I'd like to come up with
 > something better, but until I do, here it is.

I have proposed a metric which meets all your qualifications.  Now it
seems it isn't good enough; are the only acceptable metrics the ones
which rank PLT-Scheme the highest?

 > If you have an objective metric, give me the values, (or better
 > yet, tell us how to derive them!!!) and I'll add a column for that.

You promised to add a column when supplied with an objective metric;
if you want to add an additional, weighted SRFI column, that's your
right.

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