Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me

[Tom Lord]

   From: Maciej Stachowiak <address@hidden>
   On 08Oct2001 04:32PM (-0700), Tom Lord wrote:
   > 
   > 
   > R5RS only had to pass the review of a small, self-appointed committee
   > -- whose perspectives did not represent those of all implementors, and
   > did not represent those with an interest in closely related
   > technology, such as Common Lisp, or even, dare I say it, Emacs.

   Guy L. Steele, the primary author of the Common Lisp standard, is also
   one of the RnRS authors. I've read some historical notes recently (on
   a discussion on comp.lang.scheme) where he strongly urged the RnRS
   group to make #f and '() distinct, and called the #f / '() equivalence
   in Common Lisp "a mistake".

That's actually a pretty funny reply if you look at it in context.

-t