Re: R7RS large primitives [was: Re: Anonymous records]
Sergei Egorov 02 Oct 2024 23:16 UTC
Thanks, Antero, I had no idea -- will look it up. There are no pointers to
any of it
on scheme.org, so it is hard to find without knowing what you are looking
for.
Best,
-S
On Wednesday, October 2, 2024 6:28:37 PM (-04:00), Antero Mejr wrote:
> Sergei Egorov <xxxxxx@acm.org> writes:
>
> > Would it be reasonable to suggest, as a part of R7RS Large process, to
> > explicitly specify a superset of R7RS Small (we may informally call it
R7RS
> > Medium) having just enough extra primitives and mechanisms to allow
for
> > practical R7RS Large reference implementation to be distributed as a
portable
> > set of R7RS Medium-based libraries, with minimal cond-expand tricks?
> >
> > This would allow small Scheme implementors to partake in R7RS Large
game with
> > reasonable additional effort.
>
> I think this is the purpose of having the "Foundations" sections of
> R7RS-large, as opposed to the "Batteries" sections, which can be built
> on top.