Let me remind you that if you wish to vote on the ratification of the R6RS draft, you must register before July 15 (less than a week from now!). The instructions are at http://www.r6rs.org/ratification/ . You have to write a short statement of interest demonstrating your interest in the Scheme language. I strongly urge everyone on this list to register to vote since you are obviously interested in Scheme. Here is the statement of interest that I submitted.

( (email-address "feeley@iro.umontreal.ca")

(full-name "Marc Feeley")

(geographic-location "Montreal, QC, Canada")

(affiliation "Universite de Montreal") (public-email-address "feeley at iro.umontreal.ca") (web-page-url "http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley")

(statement-of-interest "As a student I was attracted to Scheme by its simplicity, dynamism and expressiveness. My Master's and PhD theses focused on the efficient implementation of Scheme. Since then I have been involved in programming language research, and Scheme has been my language of choice for exploring the design and implementation of functional programming languages. I have written several papers related to Scheme and have taught Computer Science to many students using Scheme. I am the author of a few implementations of Scheme including Gambit, which is well known for its performance, portability and conformance to the Scheme standard (indeed the only fully conformant Scheme to C compiler). I am a founder of the Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming and a member of its steering committee. I served on the Scheme standard's editor's committee as editor-in-chief. Scheme has been an integral part of my daily activities over the last 20 years."))

For the record, I intend to vote against the ratification of R6RS.

Marc