[r6rs-discuss] Standard GUI Library

From: Erich Rast <erich>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:55:02 +0200

>
> 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.

My (perhaps wrong) impression of the SRFI process was that it is only
used for specifying standards implemented in Scheme, but that
proposals that almost solely depend on external libraries or
implementation extensions don't have a realistic chance of ever
becoming a final SRFI.

Regards,

Erich
Received on Mon Jun 04 2007 - 08:55:02 UTC