John Cowan wrote: > Ben Goetter scripsit: >> John Cowan wrote: >>> R4 is very nearly dead; the implementations that only >>> support R4RS are pretty much unmaintained. >> Stalin is unrepentently R4RS, and it is still maintained. Last release >> 2 Oct 2006. > > Three years is a long time in Internet time. And Stalin is manifestly > a dead end: it does what it does, but it's a nightmare to maintain for > anyone but the author, especially given that the internal documentation > consists of "LaHaShem HaAretz U'Mloah" at the beginning and "Tam V'Nishlam > Shevah L'El Borei Olam" at the end of each source file. :-) > > Still, someone could provide Stalin with a preprocessor that did > syntax-rules and added support for (probably) everything in R5RS except > dynamic-wind. (Multiple values would have to cheat, as is the case in > chibi-scheme, where values returns a list of values with a unique object > in the car, and call-with-values merely checks for this.)
This strikes me as an extremely cavalier attitude toward important prior art and standards. I doubt highly that a standard developed with this attitude in mind would result in something garnering 90% support. David _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
