[plt-scheme] if without third argument

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 11:54:18 EDT 2008

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Tamas K Papp <tpapp at princeton.edu> wrote:

> I don't see the point in porting something that conforms to a standard
> to some dialect that does not, so I am not even going to raise this to
> the author...

That is a very dogmatic approach to take.  Standards serve us, not the
other way around.  The R5RS Scheme standard is useless for practical
programs, and R6RS is too new to expect a mature implementation like
PLT Scheme to fully adopt it.

N.


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