Re: [Scheme-reports] Introduction and additional material

[Alex Shinn <alexshinn@x>]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Andy Wingo <wingo@x> wrote:
> On Sat 30 Apr 2011 03:35, Vincent Manis <vmanis@x> writes:
>
>> The Introduction (p. 2) appears essentially unchanged since R4RS (and
>> maybe earlier), and should really be updated.
>
> I find the draft section 1.1 (p. 3) to be very distracting: it's too
> listy.  It spends too much time talking about other languages and too
> little time talking about Scheme.
>
> Suggestion: take the R6RS introduction and overview of Scheme, replacing
> libraries with modules, and changing the motivation to fit the
> motivation of WG1, and update the THANKS section, referring readers to
> previous reports for previous THANKS info.

Updating the introduction and thanks was specifically
left to the final draft, since the list of people we will
want to thank is not yet fixed :)

-- 
Alex

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