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

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On 08Oct2001 11:06PM (-0700), Tom Lord wrote:
> 
>    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.
> 

Don't start thinking you're as cool as Guy L. Steele now. :-)

 - Maciej