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WG2 Standard Docket

This is a list of work items that WG2 has voted to work on, and proposals for those work items. If no more than one proposal gets written for an item, the item may migrate to the ConsentDocket. See WG2Dockets for other dockets.

Applicable record instances: R6RS formal comment

Assertions: R6RS, R6RS with optional message and irritants.

Association list library: flushed (SRFI 1 does enough)

Binary heap: BinaryHeapsCowan

Binary search: SRFI 43

Bitwise arithmetic: SRFI 33, SRFI 60, R6RS, BitwiseCowan. See BitwiseComparison for a detailed comparison of names and parameter order. See also the incomplete proposal BitwiseArithmeticRead.

Boxes/references: SRFI 111

Character encoding conversion:

Combinators: CombinatorsCowan

Comparators: SRFI 114

Concatenation: flushed in favor of SRFI 1, SRFI 13, and VectorsCowan.

cond => with guard as well as generator (see #89): SRFI 61

Conditions: ConditionsCowan

Container conversion: WG1 ballot options

Continuation API: Feeley's paper (PDF)

Date and time arithmetic: TimeAdvancedCowan plus TimePeriodsCowan, SRFI 19

Date-time parser: Hato date parser, SRFI 19

Descriptive statistics: TallyCowan

Dictionaries (other than hash tables): ImmutableDataStructuresWortman (also includes deques and sets)

Division library: DivisionRiastradh

Enumerations and enum-sets: R6RS (see also http:www.r6rs.org/formal-comments/comment-262.txt), define-enum in the [http:wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/miscmacros Chicken miscmacros egg], Scheme48 finite record types, EnumsCowan

Environment enquiries: SRFI 112

Evaluator arguments to procedures like load: see #277

Extended exact numbers: ExtendedRationalsCowan

File system directories (reading): SCSH directory stream interface, DirectoryPortsCowan, directory-files to return a list of all files in the dir (in WG1 vote order)

File library, advanced version: FilesAdvancedCowan

File system directories (creation, removal): DirectoriesCowan

Flonum arithmetic: FlonumsCowan

Futures: Racket API

Getters and setters: SRFI 17

Gettext (i18n of strings): Chicken free-gettext, SRFI 29 (depends on SRFI 28)

Hash tables: SRFI 69, R6RS (in WG1 vote order), HashTablesCowan (much larger API, can be layered over either of the others)

hex-digit-value: same as digit value, but understands A-F and a-f too

Homogeneous numeric arrays: R6RS, SRFI 4, SRFI 63 (supersedes SRFI 25 and SRFI 47; lexical syntax in SRFI 58), SRFI 66, SRFI 74, NumericVectorsCowan

if with arbitrarily many arguments: David Kendal's rationale

Immutable cyclic lists: CyclesMedernach

Library declarations: LibraryDeclarationsCowan

Loop syntax: Olin Shivers's loop, Taylor Campbell's foof-loop, eager comprehensions from SRFI 42. See also Alex Shinn's defense of foof-loop.

Mailboxes, channels, synchronized queues: Scheme48 from Concurrent ML

make-error-object: constructs error object without raising it

<math.h> (C89 or C99): FlonumsCowan

Memoization: Memoize (not a proposal yet)

Message digests (CRC, MD5, SHA1, SHA2):

Multi-dimensional general arrays: ArraysCowan

Multiple value macros (from CL): MultipleValuesCowan

Multiple values passed through => in cond: see #90

Mutable environments for eval: MutableEnvironmentsCurtisCowan

Mutexes, condition variables: [SRFI 18

Named parameters: NamedParametersCowan

NaN dissector API (sign, quiet/signaling status, and integer tag): NanMedernach

Natural number predicates (from WG1): exact-positive-integer? and exact-non-negative-integer?.

number->string and string->number with non-ASCII decimal digits: NumberStringUnicode

Octet vectors, bytevectors, blobs: NumericVectorsCowan + StringBytevectorConversionCowan

Optional arguments (other than by case-lambda): OptionalsRiastradh

Pathnames: PathnamesCowan

Pattern matching: MatchingWise

Port encodings, buffering, line ending control: SettingsListsCowan and FilesAdvancedCowan

Port functions (concatenate, join, split): PortOperationsCowan

Procedure arity inspection: SRFI 102, Dybvig's proposal

Processes (system, popen, etc): SystemCommandCowan + ProcessPortsCowan

Queues: QueuesCowan

Random numbers: RandomnessCommonLisp, SRFI 27, RandomCowan, RandomnessArcfide (in WG1 vote order)

Raw strings: <<, """...""", SRFI 109

Record introspection: SRFI 99

Record-let: #45

REPL facilities: ReplCowan

Restarts: Common Lisp, MIT, RestartersRiastradh

Run-time records: SRFI 99, possibly simplified syntax

Search and mismatch procedures: flushed (use

Sets and bags: SRFI 113.

Shift and reset: Scheme48, Racket

Simple Posix: SimplePosixCowan

Sorting: SRFI 32, SRFI 95

String encoding and decoding: StringBytevectorConversionCowan

String positions and slices: R6RS formal comment #235

Substitution and transformation: SubstituteCowan

Syntactic closures (voted down, but restored by popular demand): MIT

Symbol library: SymbolsCowan

syntax-case (voted down, but restored by popular demand): R6RS

TCP protocol: NetworkPortsCowan

Thread-local storage: Java

Threads: ThreadsCowan, SRFI 18

UDP protocol: DatagramChannelsCowan

Undefined value API: see #49

Unicode character database: UcdCowan

Unicode normalization: R6RS, string-ni=? and friends (from earlier R7RS-small drafts).

Vector library: SRFI 43, VectorsCowan (extension of SRFI 43)

Weak dictionaries/hashtables:

Weak references (soft, phantom): MIT Scheme ephemerons, Racket ephemerons