Re: [Scheme-reports] Standard Feature Identifiers are too low-level

[Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>]

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On 01/03/2012 03:38 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> I think the standard feature identifiers given in appendix B are too low-level and ill-conceived.  They are removing from the high-level nature of Scheme.  Specifically I object to:

Perhaps a good "acid test" should be that a feature identifier should
only be standardised if the semantics of other parts of the standard
depend upon it in some way.

Eg, exposing some feature identifiers for pathname scheme (Windows-like
with an optional leading drive then \s, or POSIX-like with /s, are the
only widespread choices these days) might be useful, as we have
pathnames. But stuff about machine word formats won't be useful until
you get into C FFIs.

ABS

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Alaric Snell-Pym
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