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.) -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] 'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster' (and by this he meant the Crocodile) 'will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson.' --the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
