On 6/20/07, William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> The "large quanatities of code" that use square brackets
> are not R5RS code. So far, the editors have generally
> rejected arguments based on preserving the usefulness of
> code that does not even conform to the R5RS.
In general that is a sensible argument. However in this case, the
feature being added is precisely the feature that is "nonconforming"
in the code you're talking about. Saying "the R6RS square brackets
feature breaks portability for that code, because that code uses
square brackets" seems counterproductive. I would hope part of the
purpose of square brackets in R6RS is to improve portability of code
from Scheme implementations that already use it, and to preserve the
uses people have already found for square brackets.
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Carl Eastlund
Received on Wed Jun 20 2007 - 08:55:12 UTC