Forwarded by request. ----- Forwarded message from Moritz Heidkamp <[email protected]> -----
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 01:01:38 +0200 From: Moritz Heidkamp <[email protected]> To: John Cowan <[email protected]> Subject: R7RS-small ratification vote Dear John, would you be so kind as to forward my vote to the list? Thanks! Moritz Full name: Moritz Heidkamp Location: Germany Affiliation: None relevant Contact details: [email protected] Statement of interest: I'm a Lisp and functional programming enthusiast and have been using Scheme as my general purpose programming language for about 4 years now, mostly in personal and sometimes in professional projects. I'm part of the team maintaining the CHICKEN Scheme compiler and its project infrastructure. I have contributed numerous extensions to its library, published articles about Scheme on my website and given introductionary talks and workshops at various conferences. I'm convinced that Scheme is both an excellent vehicle to learn about the fundamentals of programming as well as a practical tool for everyday use. Vote: yes Rationale: As others have pointed out, the proposed draft contains some flaws (just like R6RS and R5RS do) but as far as I can tell it's in a pretty good shape. What I regret most is that the delimited continuations debate did not come to fruition. However, I think this is in line with how the report should evolve: It should only standardize matters when there is a de facto community consensus about them. Thus I welcome that widely adopted SRFIs (such as SRFI 1) were used as a basis rather than inventing "better" APIs. This is a principle that was apparently neglected in the R6RS process and one of the reasons why it was rejected by many implementors. From my perspective the main objective of the upcoming report is to provide a common basis for existing Scheme implementations upon which the communities surrounding them can share code more easily than the current state of affairs permits. By this measure I believe that WG1 did a good job and I thank all participants for their effort and endurance. Those who are considering to vote "no", please keep in mind that your vote weighs 9 times as much as a "yes" vote so be sure to consider it carefully. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Business before pleasure, if not too bloomering long before. --Nicholas van Rijn John Cowan <[email protected]> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
