Re: JACAL, scm

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Tom Lord wrote:

>        rlb:
> 
>        One point I was trying to make is that not everyone here is all that
>        aware of the history.  Without that background, their reactions to
>        your assertions are likely to be different.
>        
> 
>        tom:
> 
>        > Now you are aware.  Instead of dwelling on why the error was
>        > committed, why not consider how best to fix it?
> 
>        rlb: 
> 
>        Tom, you really don't seem very interested in an actual
>        discussion
> 
> 
> You don't seem very interested in the points I've asked the
> maintainers to consider, such as clean interoperability with other GNU
> software and the relation of my ()/#f proposal to the history of
> Scheme and commonly adopted practices for writing portable Scheme
> code.
> 
> Instead, you have speculated on non-technical issues and drawn
> ridiculous and unsupported conclusions about my motivations.
> 
> Which of us isn't very interested in "actual discussion"?

I say, it's you, Tom.

Your opinion is, that #f being different from '() is an error.  However,
other people on this list disagree with you about this point.  You don't
accept that others have a different point of view about this issue.  
Instead you simply continue to call it an error, in a tone that gives the
impression that the issue has been decided and that from now on everyone
has to share this point of view and should put efforts into fixing it.

After at least Maciej, Rob, and some time ago Thi have already stated that
they don't like your style of discussion I tell you that I fully agree
with each of them.  And, just to let you know, as long as I have worked
with guile it happened from time that someone misses the right tone - I
know, since it happened to me as well.  Fortunately, these situations are
rare.  But, it never happened that someone was continuously criticized for
being rude as it currently happens with you.

I see the following possibilities:  
a) You want to be rude.  In this case, congratulations, you have reached
   your goal.  No need to troll further on this list.
b) You don't want to be rude.  Then, now would be the right time to think
   about what you are doing wrong.

And, btw., count me on the side of those who think that #f should be
different from '().

Best regards
Dirk Herrmann