[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] nothing is said to be safe

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu Jan 25 14:49:12 2007

William D Clinger scripsit:

> If the report requires all programs to be safe, then
> R6RS-conforming implementations will be forbidden to
> execute programs that link with libraries written in
> unsafe languages such as C, C++, and assembly language.

Such programs are not conformant to R6RS; that is, you cannot
transport them to every conformant implementation. That is
not to say that implementations should disallow them.

-- 
John  Cowan  http://ccil.org/~cowan   cowan_at_ccil.org
'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull
as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the
large-pattern leather ulster' (and by this he meant the Crocodile) 'will
jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson.'
        --the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake

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