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teyc on April 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 1st draft of R7RS small language available (all ch...

This comes across as odd. I remember the brouhaha over R6, and many people weren't happy over it. I thought most people have got over it and adopted it. So why is R7 built on top of R5? None of the names on the report are known to me. Is this an "official" report? Is there such thing as an official report?

tizoc on April 16, 2011 | [–]

R6RS was controversial and didn't get that much adoption. And yes, this is official.

chc on April 17, 2011 | [–]

IIRC, people "got over" the R6 uproar by agreeing to reverse course for R7 and have a conservative R5-like subset as part of the standard.

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