> Simple.  He doesn't care about static nature, and wants *everything*
> to be dynamic.

Yes, exactly.  But I'm not just asserting this as a personal preference,
which can battle forever against other people's personal preferences.  I'm
claiming that the difference between these two preferences is precisely
(well, more or less precisely :-) the difference between R6-haters and
R6-lovers, and therefore, precisely the reason why we have this WG1/WG2
business in the first place.

Actually I'm making an empirical claim that I'm not quite 100% sure is true,
a little like Kant's claims about the equivalence of his various statements
of the Categorical Imperative.  The claim is that the following are at least
roughly equivalent:

* everything dynamic
* "Languages should..."
* The only meaning of any form is its REPL meaning
* Macros are an overlay on Lisp, which is Scheme's essence

I hereby name all of the above "the WG1ical Imperative."

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