On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Denis Washington <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 31.08.2011 02:18, schrieb Alex Shinn: >> R7RS is a revision of both R5RS and R6RS (we've taken text >> directly from both). To say it is closer to one or the other is >> irrelevant - it is the seventh revision of the Scheme reports, >> and to call it otherwise is confusing. > > Arguably, R7RS is not a revision of R6RS (or R5RS, for that matter) in > the sense of "one document created by augmenting and/or editing > another", but more of an reorganization in that the original single > report is now split into *two* reports. This introduces a whole new > notion of conformance levels and what consitutes a Scheme implementation > - which, I'd say, is a deep structural change. Calling this a "revision" > is, in my opinion, a stretch.
It's much less a reorganization than R6RS was, which itself is divided into two separate reports. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
