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Re: SRFI-47 -- types and declarations. Felix Winkelmann 24 Nov 2003 06:11 UTC

Am Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:12:05 +0100 hat Michael Sperber
<xxxxxx@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> geschrieben:

>>>>>> "Aubrey" == Aubrey Jaffer <xxxxxx@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> Aubrey> If one can't model on extant SRFIs, then the SRFI process has
> Aubrey> failed.
>
> Oh, puh-lease.
>
> Aubrey> How was I supposed to discover that there are good SRFIs and bad
> Aubrey> SRFIs?  The SRFI-4 "Post-Finalization Discussion Archive" is
> empty of
> Aubrey> content.
>
> Because this was discussed already in the pre-finalization discussion
> archive---right as the first item, in fact.
>
> You could also check the "implementation" list which shows that the
> number of Scheme systems supporting SRFI 4 isn't exactly long.
>

Well, the "implementation" list is also not very up-to-date.
So far PLT, Kawa, Guile, Chicken, Stklos and Gauche support SRFI-4,
as will Gambit 4.0. That's quite a lot, IMHO.

cheers,
felix