[Scheme-reports] Formal Response #456: Adoption of R6RS

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

This is a Formal Response to Formal Comment #456:

Adoption of R6RS

This Formal Comment objected to the following passage in the Introduction:

    The resulting standard, the R6RS, was completed in August
    2007, and was organized as a core language and set of mandatory
    standard libraries. The size and goals of the R6RS, however, were
    controversial, and adoption of the new standard was not as widespread
    as had been hoped.

This has been tentatively replaced by the following:

    The resulting standard, the R6RS, was completed in August 2007,
    and was organized as a core language and set of mandatory standard
    libraries. Several new implementations of Scheme conforming to it
    were created. However, most existing R5RS implementations (even
    excluding those which are essentially unmaintained) did not adopt
    R6RS, or adopted only selected parts of it.

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