Jeff Read scripsit: > Seriously, though, assuming that the primary use case for your language > will be desktop or server PC's is folly. As others have pointed out, > there are still plenty of places where every byte counts.
I think that will be the use case for large Scheme, but small Scheme must cover a wider range of processors. > (Imho it is not the place for a Scheme standard to specify how strings > will be implemented, but rather to specify the semantics of their > interface, and leave implementation details up to the implementors.) Quite. But pretending that implementation considerations don't matter at all isn't very sensible either. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] There are books that are at once excellent and boring. Those that at once leap to the mind are Thoreau's Walden, Emerson's Essays, George Eliot's Adam Bede, and Landor's Dialogues. --Somerset Maugham _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
