Things that implementations explicitly may do:
- Define external representations for additional types of objects
- Share empty strings, vectors, and bytevectors (detectably by eq? or eqv? or neither)
- Recognize additional cases of tail calls.
- Use different orders of evaluation in procedure calls
- Return a non-promise as-is from force
- Treat promises the same as their forced values in some cases
- Return literal structure or newly allocated objects in quasiquote
- Write quote and friends using lexical syntax
- Provide macro facilities other than syntax-rules
- Provide additional features identifiers
- Treat additional characters (such as FF) as whitespace
- Detect procedure equivalence beyond what is required
- Share structures between constants
- Use multiple internal representations of numbers
- Provide more than one format for inexact numbers
- Use floating-point arithmetic for inexact numbers
- Silently coerce the unrepresentable result of an exact operation to an inexact value of the highest precision available
- Return an exact result to an inexact operation if it can prove it is safe
- Support only a limited range of numbers of any type
- May support only some types of numbers
- Coerce an exact constant to an inexact value
- Distinguish +inf.0, -inf.0, +nan.0, and 0.0
- Use +nan.0 to represent non-real numbers
- Accept non-standard exponent marker
- Allow the default inexact-number precision to be set by the user
- Represent some irrational numbers exactly
- Extend the number system with non-standard types
- Return inexact values from make-polar
- Silently coerce exact non-real numbers to inexact
- Restrict the domain of string->number in specified ways
- Support any or all Unicode characters
- Support non-Unicode characters
- Support additional character names
- Forbid characters (other than ASCII ones) from appearing in strings
- Return the argument from case-folding procedures if no change was made
- Always downcase upper-case sigma to normal lower-case sigma
- Condition objects that satisfy file-error? or read-error? but not error?
- Support arguments other than 5 to scheme-version-environment and null-environment
- Make the result of scheme-report-environment and null-environment mutable
- Extend eval to allow other objects
- Provide port types other than textual and binary
- Provide input/output ports
- Recognize alternative line-ends
- Use locale information to encode and decode environment variables
- Vary the epoch of current-jiffy between runs of a program
- Bind a record-type name to a syntactic or procedural object
- Process cond-expand and import library declarations before import, include, and include-ci declarations
- Load libraries more than once
- Provide a REPL
- In the REPL, treat all variables as bound
- Allow the REPL to read input from a file
- Allow additional Unicode characters in identifiers
- Process "is an error" situations in a variety of ways
- Raise an exception on domain errors
- Provide non-portable extensions of any kind