[plt-scheme] Re: [Larceny-users] side effects in R6RS modules

I am aware of this comment.

I wonder what a porting user of Scheme thinks about the rights that  
the compiler hackers appropriate themselves with underspecs.

(Not to quibble with Will's use of over-specification here.)




On May 5, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:

>
> On May 5, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>
>> The only question is why reports have to make it particularly  
>> difficult to port by implicitly or explicitly adding ambiguity.
>
> I believe Will Clinger's R6RS formal comment #87: Reduce over- 
> specification as well as under-specification[*] addresses your  
> question.
>
> Aziz,,,
>
> [*] http://www.r6rs.org/formal-comments/comment-87.txt
>
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