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Ticket 490: The draft has little to offer over R6RS

2013-07-07 03:20:44
WG1 - Core
alexshinn
major
cowan
wontfix
source
closed
2013-05-12 23:01:09
defect

Jim Wise writes:

The draft has little to offer the working programmer over R6RS.

This is probably true, if application programmers are meant. Library programmers, however, will be able to achieve more widely portable libraries if R7RS-small is adopted by the implementations that did not adopt R6RS, as adding R7RS-small support to an R6RS implementation is extremely straightforward. The WG often had the concerns of library programmers in mind while working on the draft.

resolutionwontfix
statusnewclosed

The WG decided by unanimous consent to take no action on this ticket.