On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 9:18 AM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <[email protected]>
wrote:


> I think the point is that - even though everything has happened
> procedurally correctly - this form of reacting to a SRFI *can* be perceived
> as not a nice thing to do (in German, we say "nicht die feine englische
> Art").  SRFI 251 certainly didn't *have* to come as a surprise.  This is
> just my observation (subjectively perceived, of course) as an outsider; I
> am not saying that anyone did anything wrong.
>

It was my impression that different opinions had been expressed, even
before SRFI 245 was published, about what was the appropriate behavior when
mixing definitions and expressions.  In fact, I thought that Daphne
published SRFI 245 in response to that discussion, trying to put a concrete
proposal on the table.  So this was not a new topic of discussion.  Perhaps
I'm a barbarian, but I just don't see this as an affront.  Simultaneous
publication of competing papers, for example, is typical in the academic
world.

I'm sure that Sergei meant no offense, nor did I.

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