On 2 Oct 2009, at 6:18 am, John Cowan wrote:

> I'm officially abandoning part 4A (record printing) and part 5
> (extensible
> lexical syntax) of my proposal.  I can't even come to consensus in my
> own head, and I doubt that WG1 will be able to either.  So I'm no
> longer
> proposing any standardization in this area.  There's certainly none in
> the current Scheme implementations.

Is this thing on? I can't believe nobody's replied to this...

...so I shall. I agree. Resist the urge to put things in the core
because it'd be nice to have them. I'm all for things being out in
SRFIs. It makes it a little more complex to explain a program's
dependencies, but I think "standard profiles" will fall out naturally,
but be advisory rather than compulsory in nature.

> Thanks for everyone's help both here and on #scheme.

Oh, thank you! I think you've been a great steward of a proposal. When
people have disagreed with you, you've backed down, rather than giving
your own wishes preferential treatment. Which is a depressingly rare
attribute...

Now, what remains is to see who is on WG1, and what *they* think of
the proposal ;-)

ABS

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