[racket] Support for R7RS-small?

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 1 09:38:04 EST 2014

I think the correct answer in this context is "it can't be done." :-) 


On Feb 28, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Daniel Carrera 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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