[racket] Support for R7RS-small?

Is that a task suitable for a new user?

Daniel.


On 28 February 2014 15:06, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> Right now, I think most Racketeers are focused on making Racket the
> best Racket we can, rather than on Scheme, so I don't know of anyone
> currently planning to work on this. However, the flexibility of Racket
> means that it should be quite reasonable to adapt the existing R6RS
> and R5RS implementation to produce a package that supports R7RS. If
> you wanted to work on this, I'm sure there would be plenty of people
> on this list who could give you pointers.
>
> Sam
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a fairly new user of Scheme and Racket. My question is, now that
> > R7RS-small is out, when can I expect to see support added to Racket /
> > DrRacket? In other words, I would like to be able to type "#lang r7rs"
> in a
> > way analogous to how today I can enter "#lang r5rs" and "#lang r6rs".
> >
> > Given that R7RS-small is not that much larger than R5RS, how difficult
> would
> > it be for Racket developers to include it? From my naive point of view, I
> > suppose that the main obstacle is adding the R7RS-compliant library
> support.
> > Everything else that I see in the spec seems to already exist in default
> > Racket.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel.
> > --
> > When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase
> that
> > means it's not fun to do.
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