[Scheme-reports] Comments on revised WG1 charter

[Aaron W. Hsu]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:12:14 -0400, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> Although some of the libraries were pushed through the SRFI process,
> they were not properly marinated by being implemented and used heavily to
> flush out design and usability bugs.  Only on very rare occasions should
> something be standardized that has not been in widespread use already.

Indeed, I agree that the R6RS effort did not properly adhere to  
standardization principles of testing and implementing (and using in real  
life) before they standardized things. On the other hand, I wouldn't  
consider that necessarily ad hoc, since many of there work did have  
reasons and direction, just it didn't have the proper testing for it.

And, I know that people won't like it when I say this, but I find R6RS to  
be quite usable in practice.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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