Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Alex Shinn scripsit:

>   The initial (or "top level") Scheme environment is empty, and
>   bindings must be introduced with import.
> 
> which could indeed be worded better - the implication of the
> second clause is that `import' is provided.  The initial
> environment is indeed empty of everything other than `import'.

However, the "initial environment" is *not* the environment in effect
when the REPL starts up.  That includes at least the base and optionally
whatever the implementation wishes to provide.

In fact, I do not know what "initial environment" means at all.

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