I am forwarding the following message at the request of Gerry Sussman, who experienced difficulty in sending directly to the list himself. -Jonathan
Begin forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 10:20:48 -0400 > From: Gerald Jay Sussman <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Scheme-reports] ratification vote for R7RS-small > > > > Full name: Gerald Jay Sussman > > Location: 32-385, The Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA > > Affiliation: MIT > > Contact details (optional): [email protected] > > Statement of interest: I have been a Scheme user since Scheme was > originally conceived, by Steele and me, in an office on the 8th > floor of what was 545 Technology Square. I have written over > 10000 pages of Scheme code. I have co-written two textbooks and > a monograph that use Scheme as a medium for expressing programming > ideas, the mathematics of Classical Mechanics, and Differential > Geometry. Thus, I think I am justified in believing that I am a > serious stakeholder in this enterprise! > > Vote: yes > > Rationale: I think that the report is a very good job, overall. > I like most of the changes from R5RS and I am not too upset that > it is longer than 50 pages! However, I am pretty upset about > the inconsistent semantics of EQ? and EQV?. I think that it is > critical that procedures should have invariant identity. More > generally, I think that ((lambda (p) (eq? p p)) ...) should be > true whatever the hell ... is. > > > _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
