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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TODO list for Guile R7RS support
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:46:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nuipmm2.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5s27am2.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:09 +0100")

Hi,

On Thu 16 Feb 2012 22:05, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I’m actually arguing that these feature symbols are largely useless, for
> they cannot be rigorously specified and would almost certainly lead to
> misuses.

I very much agree.  I think that the R7RS should specify no features
that relate to operating systems.

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09  5:09 TODO list for Guile R7RS support Mark H Weaver
2012-02-10 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-11 20:41   ` Mark H Weaver
2012-02-11 21:11     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-12  3:54   ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-12 23:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-12 23:57       ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-13  4:03         ` William ML Leslie
2012-02-13 11:50         ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-14  2:35           ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-16 21:05             ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-22 21:46               ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2012-02-22 22:06 ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-23  1:39   ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-26 22:08     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-26 22:48       ` Alex Shinn
2012-02-27 16:00         ` Ludovic Courtès

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