From: William D Clinger <will>
Date: Mon Feb 26 13:03:03 2007
I am posting this as an individual member of the Scheme
community. I am not speaking for the R6RS editors, and
this message should not be confused with the editors'
eventual formal response.
Anton van Straaten wrote:
> However, it's not clear to me from the current subthread whether anyone
> is objecting to giving this much discretion to implementations, and
> instead would like R6RS to either require or forbid aggressive early
> error detection. If there are such objections, I suggest that they be
> raised explicitly (apologies if they were and I missed them).
By my accounting, no one has yet objected to giving
implementations discretion with respect to warnings.
By my accounting, the following messages object to
giving implementations discretion to reject programs
before running them:
The following message suggests that conforming
implementations could offer a special non-conforming
mode in which they have unlimited discretion to reject
programs before running them: