Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr
Grant Rettke 21 Oct 2011 20:14 UTC
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:56 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Alex Shinn scripsit:
>
>> I've used those procedures myself, and *every* single time it has been
>> a mistake. I'd rather they go away so I'm not tempted, and am forced
>> to properly abstract from the start.
>
> For the record, they can't be removed from the standard altogether,
> because they are part of IEEE Scheme, and we need specially strong
> justification to remove any feature of that standard (in fact, we have
> not done so). But we can put them in a module other than the base
> module.
Thanks for the explanation as I was trying to understand more about
how the process works.
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