On 10 Sep 2009, at 12:59 am, John Cowan wrote:

> Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:
>
>> So what this tells us from an R7RS perspective is
>> that it'd be nice to have a standard facility to ask that a block of
>> code be totally ignored (not even macro-expanded, lest we use
>> implementation-specific macros that throw up errors in other
>> implementations) if we're not on a particular implementation.
>
> That's cond-expand, SRFI-0.  You are the first person to defend it in
> my virtual hearing, though it is very widely implemented.  Should I
> add
> it to my proposals?

Yes please, with a "necessary evil" tag attached ;-)

>> 50 pages is by no means magical! I'm more interested in keeping
>> features that aren't necessary for "being Scheme"
>
> But what is Scheme? (said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an
> answer).

Good question. Let the discussions continue ;-)

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