When is a feature necessary

Advanced file port operations: please review. John Cowan (01 Nov 2019 23:01 UTC)

Re: Advanced file port operations: please review. hga@xxxxxx (02 Nov 2019 00:14 UTC)

Re: Advanced file port operations: please review. John Cowan (02 Nov 2019 02:19 UTC)

Re: Advanced file port operations: please review. Shiro Kawai (02 Nov 2019 10:15 UTC)

Re: Advanced file port operations: please review. John Cowan (02 Nov 2019 14:36 UTC)

Port settings Lassi Kortela (02 Nov 2019 10:28 UTC)

Re: Port settings John Cowan (02 Nov 2019 14:00 UTC)

Re: Port settings Lassi Kortela (02 Nov 2019 14:13 UTC)

Re: Advanced file port operations: please review. hga@xxxxxx (02 Nov 2019 15:43 UTC)

Re: Advanced file port operations: please review. John Cowan (02 Nov 2019 18:15 UTC)

SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places Lassi Kortela (02 Nov 2019 23:00 UTC)

Re: SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (03 Nov 2019 08:33 UTC)

Keyword arguments in R7RS-large and SRFIs Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 09:16 UTC)

Re: Keyword arguments in R7RS-large and SRFIs Amirouche Boubekki (03 Nov 2019 14:28 UTC)

Re: Keyword arguments in R7RS-large and SRFIs Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 15:53 UTC)

Re: Keyword arguments in R7RS-large and SRFIs John Cowan (03 Nov 2019 19:30 UTC)

How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Amirouche Boubekki (03 Nov 2019 20:11 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Amirouche Boubekki (03 Nov 2019 20:14 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 20:26 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 20:30 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? John Cowan (03 Nov 2019 22:08 UTC)

R7RS-large keyowrds Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 22:18 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds John Cowan (03 Nov 2019 22:29 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 22:34 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 Nov 2019 10:49 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds John Cowan (06 Nov 2019 17:49 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 Nov 2019 18:08 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds John Cowan (06 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Marc Feeley (06 Nov 2019 18:16 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 Nov 2019 18:17 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds John Cowan (06 Nov 2019 20:23 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 Nov 2019 18:16 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Marc Feeley (06 Nov 2019 17:59 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2019 12:29 UTC)

Re: R7RS-large keyowrds Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2019 12:53 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Amirouche Boubekki (04 Nov 2019 03:31 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Amirouche Boubekki (04 Nov 2019 04:10 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? John Cowan (03 Nov 2019 23:52 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Amirouche Boubekki (04 Nov 2019 03:43 UTC)

Re: How and Why keyword arguments are useful or harmful? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 Nov 2019 13:25 UTC)

Re: SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places John Cowan (03 Nov 2019 21:32 UTC)

When is a feature necessary Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 22:06 UTC)

Re: When is a feature necessary Lassi Kortela (03 Nov 2019 22:13 UTC)

Re: SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 Nov 2019 10:21 UTC)

Re: SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places John Cowan (09 Nov 2019 03:30 UTC)

Re: SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2019 11:55 UTC)

Re: SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2019 13:40 UTC)

Re: SRFI 177 as a dependency for keywords in other places Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2019 13:13 UTC)

When is a feature necessary Lassi Kortela 03 Nov 2019 22:06 UTC

> R7RS-large is not about what is *needed*, nor is R7RS-small.  All we *need*
> are lambdas

Unlambda is Turing complete :)
<http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/>

IMHO a good sign that a feature is needed, is when we start regularly
making workarounds for it and debating which workaround has the fewest
drawbacks. (TBH, optional static type checking is uncomfortably close to
being this kind of omission in Scheme :)