On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Aaron W. Hsu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:07:18 -0400, Grant Rettke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Aaron W. Hsu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> the PLT people would probably not change even if the standard said
>>> otherwise.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> I get the impression that PLT Scheme is about getting to the research goals
> they have,

Based on the "Story of Scheme" that would be the case with
implementation wouldn't it?

> and not necessarily about creating a stable, standards compliant
> implementation by default. Sure, they implement the standards,

Confusing. The problem is not that it is the default is it?

Run plt-r6rs; R6RS is the default.

> but their recommended default language is one that breaks with these 
> standards.

It is a completely different language; why should it conform?

> I doubt they'll change that either, just because some report says otherwise. 
> I think we
> ought to allow both semantics.

The implement and support R6RS. Why should R7RS be any different?

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