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Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 John Cowan (22 Oct 2015 23:44 UTC)
Re: Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 Shiro Kawai (23 Oct 2015 02:50 UTC)
Re: Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 John Cowan (23 Oct 2015 03:49 UTC)
Re: Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 Kevin Wortman (28 Oct 2015 23:41 UTC)
Re: Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 John Cowan (29 Oct 2015 01:51 UTC)
Re: Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 Shiro Kawai (29 Oct 2015 02:36 UTC)
Re: Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 John Cowan (29 Oct 2015 12:45 UTC)

Deprecating and replacing SRFI 114 John Cowan 22 Oct 2015 23:43 UTC

I have reluctantly concluded that SRFI 114, Comparators, is both too
full-featured and too restrictive.  It needs to be replaced by something
more Schemish, that will not do as much (a lot of SRFI 67 should have
been left there and not brought forward) but will be easier to provide,
easier to test, and better suited to the R7RS-large environment.

Therefore, I am informally deprecating it, and will be replacing it with
a new SRFI which is not yet written.  (There is no formal way to withdraw
or deprecate a SRFI that's already become final.)  As a consequence, the
sample implementations of SRFI 113 and SRFI 125 will also be replaced.
This will not threaten the stability of these SRFIs, because the interface
given by 113 and 125 will remain exactly the same.

Preliminary versions of the new SRFI will appear at
<http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/ComparatorsCowan>.

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