Scheme language standardization process
Alex Shinn scripsit: > The initial (or "top level") Scheme environment is empty, and > bindings must be introduced with import. > > which could indeed be worded better - the implication of the > second clause is that `import' is provided. The initial > environment is indeed empty of everything other than `import'. However, the "initial environment" is *not* the environment in effect when the REPL starts up. That includes at least the base and optionally whatever the implementation wishes to provide. In fact, I do not know what "initial environment" means at all. -- What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the John Cowan sound of a [Ww]all that people have stopped cowan@x banging their head against? --Larry http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports