On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 11:02:55PM +0200, Lassi Kortela wrote:
R6RS is quite a big language and there are already so many good implementations of it that new ones might not have much to add. Same situation as with Common Lisp. R7RS is such a small language that all kinds of niche implementations are interesting and useful to explore.
Which is why they split R7RS into a small language and a large language that I home can be implemented entirely on top of the small langauge.
-- hendrik