[r6rs-discuss] hello.0.4.2.sls vs. hello-0.4.2.sls

From: Anton van Straaten <anton>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:29:26 -0400

AndrevanTonder wrote:
> But why is r6rs even wasting its time with these appendices?
>
> It seems as if r6rs is simply adding cruft upon cruft for no
> better reason than that someone did the admittedly hard work
> of thinking stuff up and writing stuff down and cannot now
> bring themselves to discard it.

That is not even a minor consideration here. In the case of the library
to file mapping, there was some concern amongst the editors that without
some recommendations in this area, implementations will diverge
unnecessarily, and there will be no portable way for programs or
programmers to map libraries to files.

It is expected that implementations will offer alternative, more
powerful mapping mechanisms, but those are not likely to be common
between R6RS implementations.

Other appendices, like scripts, are not considered appropriate for the
language specification proper, but there's nevertheless benefit in
having a standard that's more consistently usable across implementations
than SRFIs tend to be for these sorts of purposes.

Anton
Received on Thu Jun 28 2007 - 17:29:26 UTC