Re: [Scheme-reports] Three really picky points

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

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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