Scheme language standardization process
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Alan Watson <alan@x> wrote: > > Hang on a second. I didn't say or imply that this was frivolous and I did not say or imply that you did this without thinking about the consequences. I just pointed out a cost and said you needed to consider it. Furthermore, one of my suggestions for mitigating the cost (having write produce #t/#f) explicitly left the new spellings intact. Sorry, I was replying to you as the OP, but the strength of my response was directed more at the later replies. > I did look for the rationale, but did not find any discussion of the implications for sharing data between different generations of Scheme. Perhaps I missed it, and if so I apologize for wasting your time. This goes with the territory of any syntactic changes, like the new symbol literals, bytevectors, and the two (!) new types of comments. I certainly considered it, and took it into account when implementing the syntax in Chibi for read only. The charter requires we are backwards compatible with R5RS, not forwards compatible. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports