[plt-scheme] Re: Should PLT Scheme have two R6RS namespaces?

From: Martin DeMello (martindemello at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 15 11:43:08 EDT 2009

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Mar 23, detmammut at googlemail.com wrote:
>> I had a discussion with eli on this allready in IRC. The problem is
>> not so much that these R6RS replacements are not available*, but
>> that someone has to step up to provide test-cases and support. I'll
>> have a week or two a free time starting april so I will port (the
>> testcases for) srfi-1 (unless someone else is faster :)
>>
>> * see https://code.launchpad.net/~ikarus-libraries-team/ikarus-libraries/srfi
>
> What I also said is that dragging a big piece of code like that,
> rather than adapting existing code, is very problematic.

Isn't one of the points of R6RS that you should be able to do this?

martin


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