[r6rs-discuss] R5.95 questions

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:15:25 -0400

William D Clinger scripsit:

> > - textual ports must no longer have an associated transcoder
>
> That's pretty funny. Fortunately, the CHANGES
> document is not intended to be normative.

It's actually the English language that's funny. Unlike sensible
German, the negation of English "must" is "need not" or "does not
have to".

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John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
        --Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown)

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