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

From: Andre van Tonder <andre>
Date: Tue Oct 10 12:03:54 2006

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, William D Clinger wrote:

> Non-scripts are definitely the majority of *Scheme*
> programs, but there is no such thing as a non-script
> program in draft R6RS Scheme.
>
> Why? I'm not sure.
>
> It could be that the R5RS is entirely adequate for
> the needs of non-script programs, so the R6RS had
> only to specify the semantics of scripts.

If so, perhaps then the R6RS document might refer back to whichever parts of
R5RS it was that adequately specified how to write portable non-script programs,
for the benefit of those of us to whom it is not obvious... ;)

Maybe my formal comment was based on a misreading of R6RS, to the extent that I
thought it was meant to provide a portable way of writing Scheme programs, also
those that are not scripts, despite the nomenclature "script", which I assumed
to have been chosen for political reasons.

Cheers
Andre
Received on Tue Oct 10 2006 - 12:02:59 UTC