[gambit-list] ANN: first draft of R7RS small language available

Alex Shinn alexshinn at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 00:08:14 EDT 2011


On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:29:43AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
>> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.
>>
>> The first draft of the R7RS small language standard is now
>> available at:
>>
>> http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/r7rs-draft-1.pdf
>>
>> This is a relatively small revision to the R5RS,
>
> Do you mean R7RS is a revision of R5RS?  Did they skip R6RS?

R6RS was a separate, but somewhat controversial standard.

R7RS is split into two languages, a small one and a large
one.  The small language is based off of R5RS, borrowing
from R6RS where appropriate.

-- 
Alex



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