On 9/6/22 18:46, John Cowan wrote:
> IMO the second option would be extremely destructive to the Scheme effort: all existing Schemes would have to be not just modified but discarded.  The first option is feasible and indeed desirable.  At the same time, we should close off the "promise = result" and "promises are implicitly forced in certain cases" options.

I haven't really been following the discussions, but I want to point out that
Kawa has implicit forcing for both (delay ...) and (future ...).
(display ...) does an implicit force; (write ...) does not.
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