I wish to add that if the editors actually did this, I suspect
the result would be a set of very beautiful SRFIs.
The Scheme community has what economists call "sunk
costs" in the large amount of thinking that has gone into
the draft. I think it was a wise investment that, while it
did not produce something I'd wish to call R6, yielded
much of high value.
The challenge for the Scheme community, now before
us, is to maximize the "return" on all of the hard, good
work that went into the draft.
I suggest, as strongly as I can, that the maximal return
is likely to come from converting that work to SRFIs.
They don't even have to be perfect documents, frankly:
just getting the gists of things across is enough to activate
implementors and, then, it easy to repair a defective SRFI
by publishing a follow-up SRFI.
-t
> Well, here's another compromise proposal since Cowan was only
> mildly dismayed by the last one:
>
> 1) The editors vote tomorrow to shut down the R6 process, keep
> this mailing list open, and convert to publishing a bunch of
> SRFIs.
>
> 2) Everyone who is not an editor thinks highly of them for
> taking such a noble (and "no bull") step.
>
> -t
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