[r6rs-discuss] >= should not act on subversion, but rather version

From: Carl Eastlund <cce>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:08:46 -0400

On 6/14/07, AndrevanTonder <andre at het.brown.edu> wrote:
>
> Ah, I forgot that subversions could be larger than 9 (please also ignore an
> additional post I just sent based on this misconception). But I wonder if
> this is not a misfeature, given its dissonance with longstanding industry
> practice (as far as I am aware).

Well, for a single example, according to http://www.kernel.org/,

The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.21.5

So Scheme wouldn't be the first software to use numbers greater than
10 in the middle of a version spec.

-- 
Carl Eastlund
Received on Thu Jun 14 2007 - 11:08:46 UTC

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