Vincent Manis scripsit: > The Introduction (p. 2) appears essentially unchanged since R4RS (and maybe > earlier), and should really be updated. > > In `Background': the first couple of paragraphs are essentially ancient > history now, and might be compressed somewhat. A new paragraph should > describe what has happened to Scheme since R4RS. Mention should be made of: > IEEE Scheme, R5RS, R6RS. It has been used at many more universities and > schools. Many books have been written about Scheme. It has been used for > building applications running on everything from mobile devices up. It has > been used as an extension language for many applications. Many other > languages have adapted features from it, with greater or lesser success. > > The `Acknowledgements' are again ancient history. I very much doubt that the > authors of R7RS are actually thanking Betty Dexter, though they might still > be thanking Don Knuth! :) I suggest prefixing the current Acknowledgements > with the sentence `Earlier versions of this Report included the following > acknowledgements.' and then adding a paragraph at the end saying `The authors > of R7RS wish to thank the following parties...' > > In `Additional Material' (p. 61). The Internet Scheme Repository has fallen > into desuetude. Perhaps mention can also be made of readscheme.org.
I've saved all this in a ticket, since it will be needed for the last draft. -- My confusion is rapidly waxing John Cowan For XML Schema's too taxing: [email protected] I'd use DTDs http://www.ccil.org/~cowan If they had local trees -- I think I best switch to RELAX NG. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
