[racket-dev] racket/date, SRFI-19, date construction

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 11 16:47:16 EST 2013

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> And as you probably guessed, racket/date is the way it is for backwards
> compatibility reasons. I don't know how srfi/19 came to be, but it might
> just be  because someone took the sample implementation from the srfi and
> stuck it into Racket.

As it happens, the original SRFI reference implementation was done in
Racket (well, PLT Scheme), but appears to have used its own struct.

Sam

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