[r6rs-discuss] The library name "rnrs" is overly precious

From: Ben Goetter <goetter>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:52:43 -0700

> RRS would be more accurate. The Revised Reports are not the only
> Scheme standards.

I don't see it as unreasonable for the current standard-in-formation
(and its heirs, successors, and assigns) to claim the name of "Scheme."
  Should IEEE 1178-1990 ever evolve to something approaching R6RS and
demand a separate top-level namespace for its own standard libraries,
some symbol prefixed by /ieee/, e.g. /ieee-scheme/ or /ieee-1178-1990/,
would be a much more reasonable name for that hypothetical standard than
the hoary /r(n)rs/ joke is for this one. All IMO of course.

Though I instead expect that IEEE 1178-1990 (R2010) would consecrate
some fork or descendent of the current process and so use e.g. (scheme
base (7 1)) as opposed to an all-new namespace.

Ben
Received on Mon Jul 02 2007 - 13:52:43 UTC