Scheme language standardization process
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Arthur A. Gleckler <aag@x> wrote: > The other (or at least another) is the embedded-systems language; > simplicity, clarity, and expressiveness are important, but the > implementation needs to be fast and small (possibly skipping parts > of the numeric tower for the sake of being small) and the "minimal" > I/O requirement is byte-oriented. Reading/Writing characters is > secondary and may be supplied by a library implemented in terms of > bytes. An arbitrarily embeddable language cannot have any I/O API requirements. ECMAScript, for example, doesn't have any I/O. It is up to the host program, into which the language is embedded, to add host objects which enable an I/O API appropriate to the embedding. Peter _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list r6rs-discuss@x http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss