On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:25:21 -0500 John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit: > > > Clearly, it's far too late for call/cc to be replaced by delimited > > continuations for R7RS, but it would be nice to decide if it > > might be worth considering for R8RS (along with > > immutable-by-default pairs, perhaps? :-) > > It's not too late in a process sense, but because call/cc is an IEEE > Scheme feature, the following sentence from the WG1 charter applies: > "Existing features of IEEE Scheme may be removed only if a strong > case can be made that they are fundamentally flawed." We haven't > seen a strong case of that type thus far.
Even if one didn't want to remove the feature, one could still add text indicating that it is problematic and that other features are considered a better way to achieve the same goal... -- Perry E. Metzger [email protected] _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
