Here's a correction to my previous message, in which I wrote:

> > SRFI-77 is fine. However, in your email you suggested that requiring
> > "only the fixnum/flonum foundation" in the base language was attractive.
> > I think the minimum you have to include is exact integers "large enough
> > to index any list, string, or vector that can be created" along with
> > arithmetic operations on these exact integers. Do you disagree?
>
> Yes....

I meant yes, I agree.  I should have said no, I do not disagree.

Will