Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 Denis Washington (03 Aug 2011 21:50 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 Andre van Tonder (03 Aug 2011 21:59 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 Andre van Tonder (03 Aug 2011 22:05 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 Alex Shinn (04 Aug 2011 01:20 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 John Cowan (04 Aug 2011 03:46 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 Alex Shinn (04 Aug 2011 03:52 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 Andre van Tonder (04 Aug 2011 04:06 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 John Cowan (04 Aug 2011 21:45 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 John Cowan (05 Aug 2011 05:30 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 6 Alex Shinn 04 Aug 2011 01:20 UTC

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Andre van Tonder <andre@het.brown.edu> wrote:
> I see what you mean.
>
> The March 9 draft at http://scheme-reports.org/2011/working-group-1.html does
> not have this.
>
> OTOH, the March 9 draft at
> http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/r7rs-draft-3.pdf
> does say this.
>
> The initial environment cannot be empty.  It has to have at least IMPORT,
> otherwise you cannot do anything with it.

The draft says

  The initial (or "top level") Scheme environment is empty, and
  bindings must be introduced with import.

which could indeed be worded better - the implication of the
second clause is that `import' is provided.  The initial
environment is indeed empty of everything other than `import'.

--
Alex

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