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Re: landed r7rs support
From: |
Linus Björnstam |
Subject: |
Re: landed r7rs support |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:52:17 +0100 |
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Cyrus-JMAP/3.1.7-562-gfd0633a-fmstable-20191114v1 |
Wow! Great job!
The text about the standards process is probably going to annoy people since it
does not mention the division between r7rs small and large :)
last time I checked, r7rs large was on path to become a much larger language
than common lisp, and the goal the whole time was a large and a small language.
--
Linus Björnstam
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, at 15:44, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hey all :)
>
> Just a little heads-up that I just landed R7RS support. Thanks to Göran
> Weinholt for akku-scm (https://gitlab.com/akkuscm/akku-r7rs/) and
> OKUMURA Yuki for yuni (https://github.com/okuoku/yuni), off of which
> some of these files were based. (These projects are public domain /
> CC0).
>
> The library syntax for R7RS is a subset of R6RS, so to use R7RS you just
> (import (scheme base)) and off you go. As with R6RS also, there are
> some small lexical incompatibilities regarding hex escapes; see "R7RS
> Incompatibilities" in the manual. Also there is a --r7rs command-line
> option.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>