[racket] Support for R7RS-small?

I don't know -- it would certainly be jumping in at the deep end, but
it all depends on the user in question.

Sam

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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