[r6rs-discuss] I hereby reverse

From: Thomas Lord <lord>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:58:31 -0700

I reverse my position.

Unless a majority of editors ask for people to vote "no," then I intend
to vote "yes" to ratification. I hope others will, as well.

I arrived at this reversal by "going meta," myself. I stepped back and
thought about the past several months of discussion as a document of its
own -- a de facto appendix to the draft. We've had good discussions
about a wide range of issues that represent the frontier of the
evolution of Scheme. Many "sides" of each issue have been well
presented and well argued. A very wide variety of perspectives have
been present. In my view, in all of the hard cases, the outcome of that
debate is inconclusive, yet the draft represents genuine forward
progress and manages capture, simply, many widely agreeable advances.

The root of the title of the proposed document is "Report". The
series may be understood as an exercise in journalism. The drafting
process has (beneficially) helped to set the zeitgeist in the Scheme
world. The draft document itself largely expresses the resulting
zeitgeist. As a "Report" of where Scheme is at: the draft is a very
good, useful document.

It is surely imperfect in some tweaky details, on its own terms. The
language of the draft is not, in a precise form, likely to take the
Scheme world by storm and displace all variations. Yet, yes, in much
more than just broad outline it is on many right tracks and it is an
accurate report of "where we are," and where people are heading.

So, I am persuaded. "yes."

Regards,
-t
Received on Sun Jul 01 2007 - 15:58:31 UTC