[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Conflating programs and scripts

From: Michael Sperber <sperber>
Date: Sat Nov 18 09:01:22 2006

[I'm not speaking for the editor.]

Michael Sperber <sperber_at_informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> I think the person who wrote the wording in question (not to mention
> names here) probably used the word "program" by accident. It is my
> interpretation that the intention was to avoid the word "program"
> because it has connotations that should rather be avoided.

On review, this is not true. The person in question actually did
intend "program" to be a term in the draft, and its meaning is
explained in Section 4.1 ("Programs and libraries"). Essentially, a
program is the entirety of the code referred to by a script. That's
also why there's a different word for "script." There are a few
places in the report where the word is used inconsistently. (Not
those you quoted, however.) I'll try to fix those. (This is just a
comment on terminology, not on the deeper issues.)


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