> Almost every Scheme system worth its salt has some means of encapsulating  
> a set of definitions and expressions and providing controlled visibility  
> to those bindings created in some fashion.

Actually, /every/ Scheme without exception has such a means; it's called
LAMBDA.  See SICP 2.5.1 for example.

It seems to me that anyone who wishes to apply the adjective "Schemely" to a
module/package system other than LAMBDA faces a very high burden of proof.
Certainly anyone who proposes a module/package system other than LAMBDA for
WG1 Scheme faces an /extremely/ high burden of proof.

Yes, I know that the Steering Commitee feels otherwise.  The SC members, while
in many ways godly, are not quite God and can be wrong.  I believe that they
are wrong about this point.

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