[r6rs-discuss] Standard GUI Library

From: Jeff Read <bitwize>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 05:39:59 -0700

On 6/4/07, Erich Rast <erich at snafu.de> wrote:

> I'm new to the R6RS discussion list and would like to make an informal
> comment only, as I figure it might be too late in the standard process to
> take my suggestion into account. I'd like to see Scheme become a
> `mainstream' language outside the academic environment, and I believe that
> the standard library document should therefore specify an optional, but rich
> common GUI toolkit and perhaps also a System library.

Scheme is not a "batteries-included" language, and so things like GUI
libraries are outside the scope of the Scheme standard. This sort of
thing is much better suited to the SRFI process.

--Jeff
Received on Mon Jun 04 2007 - 08:39:59 UTC