On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Vincent Manis<[email protected]> wrote: > > I suggest that the R7RS Committee adopt a process whereby a proposal > for a feature not found in RnRS, n<7, requires a demonstration of a > Scheme system that implements the feature before the proposal is > considered. The system involved can be a metacircular interpreter, so > the barrier to entry is relatively low. It can also be code written > for a particular system, or written in portable Scheme. > But let's anchor the whole process in the here-and-now of building > good languages that enhance our communication between each other and > between us and our computers.
I love this idea. It would be so much easier (although still not easy) to come to agreement if we were making concrete arguments about code to which we all had access rather than more sweeping arguments about our separate experiences. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
