Per Bothner scripsit:
> Likewise, I would have preferred to use the R6RS library
> keywords, and just standardize a subset on the R6RS functionality,
> even at the risk of some edge-case incompatibility.
We believed that we needed the ability to extend the syntax at the
implementation level, without having to require low-level macros
in the small language standard. That meant a distinction between
library declarations and macro invocations.
--
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
--Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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