On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Andre van Tonder<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
>
>> Some people say "things should be in the standard because they want to
>> be able to use them" (sockets etc). I agree, we need a standard way to
>> do sockets, but it needn't be in "core Scheme". It should be
>> standardised in an SRFI, or maybe in "large Scheme".
>
> I am of the opinion that we don't need large Scheme at all.  SRFIs
> should be sufficient, if the process is properly conducted.  Large
> Scheme seems too heavyweight a process, and updates to it are
> likely to be too intermittent, to fulfill the growing and changing
> needs for useful libraries.

All of the discussions seem to be leaning towards this.

The fight then will be about Unicode, case-sensitivity, modules, and records no?

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