[racket] Getting started with R6RS

It is indeed a frustrating situation.

Robby

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Neil Van Dyke wrote at 05/14/2011 07:16 PM:
>>
>> Just to be clear, when I wish for R6RS to be shot in the gut and left to
>> die painfully in a ditch, I mean that in the utmost nice and respectful way.
>> :)  R5RS was getting close to a gem (with a few warts and glaring
>> omissions), and R6RS is this big thing that PLT ultimately did not embrace.
>>  With the effect that people have tended to start trying to do R6RS with PLT
>> tools, but then wonder why there are rough edges and the PLT documentation
>> is mostly full of these other things that don't seem to work in their R6RS
>> program.
>
> To be further clear, I was not speaking there of the innate merits of R6RS,
> but of the situation of the official standard and the most popular
> implementation diverging.
>
> As someone who once went to pains to code portable libraries in a subset of
> R4RS, I eventually decided that Racket was the de facto standard to follow
> for now.  I can always move my personal work back to RnRS or to a different
> dialect, without too much pain, if I want to.  For now, my only pain comes
> from seeing prospective Racketeers get turned off Racket and Scheme because
> they start off assuming they should use R6RS with Racket tools and then get
> confused.  That's why all the displaced aggression with the gut-shots.
>
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