minor editorial comments Peter McGoron (26 Jun 2026 00:37 UTC)
Re: minor editorial comments Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (26 Jun 2026 01:17 UTC)

Re: minor editorial comments Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 26 Jun 2026 01:17 UTC

On 2026-06-25 20:34 -0400, Peter McGoron wrote:
> "Whereas SRFI 27 allows the user to get the state of any source,
> however": The "however" can be removed.

Fixed.

> "Random-port states can also be compared" Operations on random port
> states are only specified implicitly earlier in the paragraph
> ("external representations"), so "also" should be removed here.

Good catch.  The "also" referred to something that I edited out.

> "SRFI 158 generators, however, are ill-defined" this makes it sound
> like there is some inconsistency in how generators are defined, when
> it seems like the point is that generators are too simple.
> "ill-defined" should be changed to something else.

I've changed this paragraph to emphasize the too-simple issue with
generators.  I happen to think they *are* ill-defined, at least in the
sense that a generator can't be distinguished from any other kind of
procedure.  But that's not really to the point.

> "See e.g. Taylor Campbell’s comments on preferable defaults" His
> comments aren't an example of the previous statement. "e.g." should
> be removed here.

Fixed.

> Overall a very nice elephant.

Thanks for your many contributions.

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