On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:42:20PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
>
>
>     > From: xxxxxx@freenetproject.org
>
>     > There is simply no way to have genericly programmable
>     > collections without some generic dispatch mechanism.  Nearly all
>     > Scheme implementations currently have it.
>
> So what if they do?  Are those mechanisms standardized in a SRFI?

They don't need to be, just as the mechanisms for implementing
continuations or threads don't need to be standardized to support
SRFI-18.  It would be nice if they were, but we can have a portable
implementation without them.

	Scott