Brian Harvey scripsit: > Seriously, I think that this gratuitous old-code-breaking change in > R6 was a big reason for the hostility with which R6 was met. I think > it should be a principle that any program that ran in R5 Scheme should > run, unmodified, in R7 Scheme.
No one reason was needed. It's more like the reason the English House of Commons passed the (temporary) abolition of bishops in the Church of England back in 1641: as Lord Falkland said, "They who hated bishops, hated them worse than the Devil; and they who loved them, did not love them so well as their dinner." And yet .... -- And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic tenebrous ultimate gods --the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep. (Lovecraft) John Cowan [email protected] _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
