[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] SRFI-39 should be made an R6RS library

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Tue Feb 20 12:51:14 2007

Michael Sperber scripsit:

> As Scheme generally tries to avoid piling feature upon
> feature, it's a better strategy to offer the building blocks and let
> people build the parameter mechanism they want from them.

That, no doubt, is why R5.92RS has three different record packages and
all kinds of numbers. At least they *are* piled one on another
instead of being fundamentally incompatible.

How parameters are to be implemented depends on fundamental factors
of a Scheme implementation that are outside the R*RS purview, notably
whether there are primitive threads and how they work. As such,
I still think it's important to standardize the interface to this
widely provided feature.

-- 
John Cowan
        cowan_at_ccil.org
                I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
Received on Tue Feb 20 2007 - 12:51:02 UTC

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