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

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:48:55 -0400

AndrevanTonder scripsit:

> 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).

Not at all. I am using version 7.15.4 of curl, 0.995 of cocom, 6.8.99.901
of X11, 1.11.22 of cvs, 1.18.1 of groff, and 3.22-10 of procmail, to
pick a few salient examples. ("-10" means that it is the tenth distro
patch to the upstream release 3.22.) My own library, TagSoup, has had
the following released version numbers: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1 through 0.9.7,
0.10.1, 0.10.2, 1.0rc1 through 1.0rc9, 1.0, 1.0.1 through 1.0.5, 1.1,
1.1.1 through 1.1.3.

For that matter, we are now discussing version 5.94 of RnRS, though I
admit that understanding this as 5.9.4 wouldn't be unreasonable.

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