On 8/15/07, Aubrey Jaffer <agj at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> | Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:18:31 -0500
> | From: Chongkai Zhu <czhu at cs.utah.edu>
> |
> | Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> | > Can R5.97R Scheme be extended to support SRFI-63 arrays?
> |
> | One story: an unusable version of SRFI-63 was once put in PLT
> | Scheme for about 1 year, yet not any complain was heard.
>
> That was not my doing.
No, it was mine. I wrote an implementation of SRFI 63 (for both PLT
and Scheme 48) so as to really understand the specification (for which
I was an editor). It turned up a number of bugs in the reference
implementation and SLIB (one and the same), which were subsequently
patched (I think revisions 1.36-1.43[*] were mostly due to the
correspondence I was having with Aubrey at this time). According to
Chongkai (I haven't confirmed), the PLT implementation had bugs in the
contract I attached to the module. What this has to do with the
merits of SRFI 63 or the draft R6RS, I have no idea.
> | If now there is a vote for SRFI-63, I will definitely vote for no.
>
> I am sorry that you hold SRFI-63 responsible for the actions of
> someone unknown to its author.
Indeed. My own inadequacies shouldn't have any bearing on the matter.
David
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