------- Forwarded message ------- From: "John Cowan" <[email protected]> To: "Aaron W. Hsu" <[email protected]> Cc: "John Cowan" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Proposed features for small Scheme, part 1: a stake in the ground Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:38:40 -0400
Aaron W. Hsu scripsit: > Of course, nearly every Scheme is going to use many more features than > what is provided by a pure, academic core quintessential Scheme standard. > However, breaking apart the standard into many parts gives use some > niceties in writing papers, describint program requirements, and > designing > systems. It's a clarity thing. There is some more administration > overhead, There's a *lot* more bureaucracy overhead. Writing N standards is almost N times as hard as writing one -- been there, done that. > but it allows me to implement Scheme in a way that makes more sense, to > me > at least. Maybe I'm just cooky. Embedded Schemes could take advantage of > this, for example. Simplistic Scheme bootstrap or VM systems could be > created, and they would be based on a standard that others could > reference > when using it, &c. I think the permission to omit features covers what you need here. -- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
