[gambit-list] R6RS

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Sat Dec 21 19:24:35 EST 2019


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




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