Welcome to the Scheme Working Groups

The final R7RS-small report has been endorsed by a unanimous vote of the Scheme Language Steering Committee. A formal announcement will be made at Scheme 2013. The TeX source code for the report has been released by the editors.

Comments and discussion are welcome at the public discussion list. Errata for the final draft have been posted at R7RSSmallErrata.

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex (alphabetic) or RecentChanges (most recent first).

Click on "Attachments" below to access the first-year progress report and all draft reports.

Working Group 1 (Charter)

Member Page

Process

• Sample Vote
• First Ballot (Results)
• Second Ballot (Results)
• Third Ballot (Results)
• Fourth Ballot (Results)
• Fifth Ballot (Results)
• Sixth Ballot (Results)
• Seventh Ballot (Results)
• Eighth Ballot (Results)
• Ninth Ballot (Results)
• Tenth Ballot (Results)

Issue Summaries and Proposals (many now obsolete)

• Keywords
• ModuleSystems
  • ModuleFactoringSummary
  • ModulesAndPackagesArcfide
  • ModulesShinn
  • ModulesGanz
• RecordStandards
  • UniqueTypesSnellPym
  • RecordsArcfide
  • UserAggregatesRush
  • RecordsCowan
  • AggregatesMedernach
• BinaryData
  • BlobsAndSRFI4SnellPym
  • BlobAPI (Cowan)
• CharacterSets
  • UnicodeCowan
• StringRepresentations
• StringNormalization
• CaseSensitivity
  • CaseSensitivityArcfide
• Parameters
  • ParametersSnellPym
  • ImmutableParametersCowan (once again supersedes ParametersCowan)
• Exceptions, Conditions, and Error handling
  • R6RSExceptionHandlingCowan
    • (replaces ExceptionHandlingCowan)
• Random Number Generation
  • RandomCowan
  • RandomnessArcfide
  • RandomnessCommonLisp
  • SRFI-27
• Let-syntax
  • LetSyntaxArcfide

Working Group 2 (Charter)

Member Page

Proposed revision to WG2 Charter

Note: Proposals and issue summaries are linked from the Docket pages below.

Work Item Dockets

• InputDocket (new work items not yet accepted by WG2)
• PreStandardDocket (work items to be moved to StandardDocket unless there are objections)
• StandardDocket (main list of WG2 work items with proposals)
• ConsentDocket (work items whose resolution is uncontroversial in the view of the chair)
• ReassignedDocket (work items for future WGs)
• RevoteDocket (work items that need a WG2 revote)
• RejectedDocket (items that were rejected by a WG2 vote)
• MandatoryDocket (things to consider making mandatory in R7RS-large)

Proposed Repository Format

• Snow

Administration

• WG2Calendar

Information on Scheme Implementations

Catalog of Condition/Exception Taxonomies

Catalogs of Features

• Scheme Systems Supporting SRFIs, by John Cowan
• Small Scheme Standard Modules, by John Cowan (Also contains some proposals.)
• DSSSL vs. Scheme (explains the difference between R4RS Scheme and the DSSSL expression language)
• ImplementationContrasts (shows what different implementations do in particular circumstances)

Catalogs of Implementations

• List of Scheme implementations, at Schemers.org
• SchemeImplementationReleases
• SchemeImplementors
• ImplementationContrasts (gives list of 45 implementations used for testing)

Previous Scheme Standards

• R0RS
• R1RS
• R2RS
• R3RS (.ps.gz format)
• R4RS
• R5RS
• R6RS base, libraries, appendices, rationale

Administrative Details

• SiteBackups

Editorial Corrections

• SeventhDraftEditorialCorrections (partial)
• EighthDraftEditorialCorrections
• NinthDraftEditorialCorrections
• R7RSSmallErrata