[R6RS] revised^1 exception vote list

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Mon May 15 14:37:06 EDT 2006


William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> Mike wrote:
>> Correct?  If not, could you explain?
>
> Close, but not quite correct.  For technical reasons related
> to the difficulty of describing the semantics Kent requested,
> a plausible prefix is not a Scheme value, and therefore not 
> a possible argument to any procedure.  Hence the explosive
> locution in munition 22.

OK, I understand where I messed up.  However, I still don't grok what
"the first Scheme value of a plausible prefix of length n" is.  (Maybe
my brain misparenthesizes?)  It might help if you could briefly
explain what the difference between munitions 22 and 23 are.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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