Re: [Scheme-reports] Appeal for review help with R7RS draft 4 Denis Washington (15 Oct 2011 07:14 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Appeal for review help with R7RS draft 4 Jeronimo Pellegrini (15 Oct 2011 12:06 UTC)
Re: Appeal for review help with R7RS draft 4 Arthur A. Gleckler (16 Oct 2011 04:46 UTC)
Re: Appeal for review help with R7RS draft 4 Arthur A. Gleckler (16 Oct 2011 21:08 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Jussi Piitulainen (16 Oct 2011 14:45 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (17 Oct 2011 06:41 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Alex Shinn (17 Oct 2011 23:39 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Jussi Piitulainen (20 Oct 2011 12:12 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Ray Dillinger (25 Oct 2011 00:43 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (25 Oct 2011 02:17 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Alex Shinn (20 Oct 2011 08:21 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Ray Dillinger (20 Oct 2011 17:06 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (20 Oct 2011 17:46 UTC)
Re: Legacy caar to cddddr Arthur A. Gleckler (20 Oct 2011 17:50 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Aubrey Jaffer (20 Oct 2011 20:18 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (20 Oct 2011 22:44 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Alex Shinn (21 Oct 2011 02:48 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Aubrey Jaffer (22 Oct 2011 00:04 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Alex Shinn (23 Oct 2011 05:27 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (20 Oct 2011 17:52 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Grant Rettke (21 Oct 2011 02:34 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Alex Shinn (21 Oct 2011 02:51 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (21 Oct 2011 02:56 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Grant Rettke (21 Oct 2011 20:16 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Aubrey Jaffer (22 Oct 2011 00:14 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Andre van Tonder (22 Oct 2011 14:47 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (22 Oct 2011 17:56 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Andre van Tonder (22 Oct 2011 19:15 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (22 Oct 2011 20:31 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Andre van Tonder (23 Oct 2011 08:11 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (23 Oct 2011 19:41 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Denis Washington (22 Oct 2011 19:16 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Aubrey Jaffer (24 Oct 2011 00:57 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Alex Shinn (23 Oct 2011 05:39 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Andre van Tonder (23 Oct 2011 08:04 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Jussi Piitulainen (23 Oct 2011 11:44 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Alex Shinn (23 Oct 2011 15:16 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr Andre van Tonder (23 Oct 2011 16:27 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr John Cowan (23 Oct 2011 18:14 UTC)

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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