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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Guile Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Elf <elf@ephemeral.net>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:51:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejfd7fnq.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4uykkes.fsf@laas.fr> (Ludovic Courtès's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:30:51 +0100")

ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
>
>> FWIW, my feeling about R6 as a whole is that it is not aligned with
>> Guile's objective - remembering that the latter is not just to be a
>> Scheme implementation, but a Scheme implementation in the form of an
>> embeddable library that is useful for extending applications.  But my
>> thoughts on this haven't fully crystallised yet.
>
> Speaking of this, I hope you (Guile developers) don't mind my answer to
> Marc Feeley wrt. R6RS, which he posted on `r6rs-discuss' [0].  We
> haven't had a debate about it here, but I'd be glad if we had one.

Well I didn't mind.  I was happy to see that Marc had received a
statement from "Guile", and I'm happy with what you said.

> BTW, as time passes, I am more and more doubtful about the "embeddable
> library" argument.  After all, if we work on a Scheme implementation,
> that's certainly because we want to write Scheme.  Sure we want to make
> it easy to interface with existing code written in C, but we also want
> to write *more* Scheme code.

^ Agreed up to here...

>  With that goal in mind, the pure
> interpreter approach is not sustainable

... but I don't see what you mean by this.

Regards,
        Neil



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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <200710261850.l9QIo8Vu017241@garbo.cs.indiana.edu>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0710261701241.9685@tesseract.thetesseract.org>
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     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0710280508300.19352@tesseract.thetesseract.org>
2007-10-28 18:16         ` [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS Neil Jerram
2007-10-28 18:29           ` Elf
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0710281146460.32075@tesseract.thetesseract.org>
2007-10-28 19:28             ` Neil Jerram
2007-10-29 15:30               ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-29 21:51                 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2007-10-30  9:50                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-30 15:01                     ` Julian Graham
2007-10-30 23:15                       ` Neil Jerram
2007-10-31 14:55                         ` Julian Graham
2007-10-31 13:12                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-06 21:54                         ` Neil Jerram
2007-11-11 15:28                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-12 20:29                             ` Neil Jerram
2007-11-12 20:51                               ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-30 22:53                     ` Neil Jerram
2007-10-31 10:30                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-02 20:53                       ` Klaus Schilling
2007-11-03 11:14                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-03 17:49                           ` Klaus Schilling
2007-10-30 23:55               ` Andy Wingo
2007-11-03 18:15           ` Klaus Schilling
2007-11-04 12:39             ` Ludovic Courtès

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