[plt-scheme] Re: Is R6RS useless for PLT?

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Wed Nov 19 16:03:51 EST 2008

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:56 PM,  <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> R6RS has made moves in this direction, providing more necessary tools,

I think of R6RS as being important for its API definition; people want
to have a chance at portability.

> What needs doing is to bend PLT Schene in the direction of R6RS,
> gradually removing incompatibilities, and gradually creating bridges for
> old code.

You can call into and out of R6RS from the #scheme language, it is
already in place.

Back-porting functionality to R6RS is the harder part.

> the role of the PLT scheme in this is to provide the
> coordination and common toolset that make this work.

Definitely.


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