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

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM, 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.

The better approach would be to write wrappers for the immutable
implementations?