On 2009-09-06, at 16:46, Thomas Lord wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 16:38 -0700, Vincent Manis wrote: >> >> I cannot emphasize the importance of this point enough. I really >> encourage the Committee to do *NO* programming language research as >> part of this project > Perhaps they should just re-sign R4 and call it day?
Er, no. There are lots of good things in R5RS, and even quite a few good things in R6RS. I'm sure that R7RS will have some things none of us have thought of yet, brought to the Committee by proposers who take the time to demonstrate the efficacy AND successful implementation of their feature. Some of these proposers might well be Committee members, I just don't want the Committee as a whole to `give to airy nothing/A local habitation and a name' (a quotation from Shakespeare that amusingly was included in the ALGOL 68 Report). -- v _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
