Re: [Scheme-reports] Three really picky points

[Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>]

Exactly what does that interoperability imply, though? That all bindings from IEEE be in the default environment, without any importing? For if we allow some imports, surely an import with renaming is OK, or an import of an IEEE comparability library that includes them all? 


John Cowan <cowan@x> wrote:


Alex Shinn scripsit:

> I think this reasoning is flawed.  If we believe the names
> [exact->inexact and inexact->exact] are bad, and that R6RS fixed the
> names, we should go with R6RS, not write an apology.

That would break backward compatibility with IEEE Scheme, a constraint
which did not apply to the R6RS work but is effectively imposed on WG1
by its charter.  I would be extremely reluctant to go there.

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