I know it's been up for a vote, but I think the WG went past "consistency" to "foolish consistency" as regards string-map, string-for-each, etc. They seem singularly useless to me. It would be better to leave them out and promote some more general iteration/collection facility. (Is string-map a control feature anyway? Yuk.)
I very much prefer the R6RS `map' to the SRFI-1 `map' as regards multiple lists. Including call/cc is understandable given the low penetration of delimited continuations among implementations, but it is still a real shame. Delimited continuations are much, much, much better. À la "Hewitt was right", Oleg was right. Call/cc was cool but ultimately a wart, not something we should toot our horn about (i.e. "can be used to create all control structures" -- yes, but can you compose them?). The discussion of dynamic extents in dynamic-wind should somehow be related to the previous discussion in parameterize. Ideally the term should be defined only once. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
