Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:

> I'd say that a requirement for being usable for embedded programming
> would mean it should mandate very little - not all embedded apps will
> need binary ports. Obviously, a line must be drawn somewhere, but I
> don't see the WG1 charter as requiring that the line be drawn above
> binary I/O.

It doesn't.  The draft charter only mandates IEEE Scheme.  But I'm
arguing that binary ports are useful enough to be optional parts of
Thing One.  (See http://tinyurl.com/feature-groups for details of
what's optional in my proposals and what's not.)

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