[R6RS] 3 things we may want to vote on

Marc Feeley feeley
Tue Jun 7 23:32:55 EDT 2005


On 6-Jun-05, at 12:42 PM, Michael Sperber wrote:

>
> These are pretty straightforward in that they're mostly yes/no
> decisions, and we seem to have exhausted discussion on them fairly
> quickly.  All are portability issues.  So I think they're ready for a
> vote:
>
> - Make continuations created by BEGIN accept multiple values?

I'm OK with that.

> Two decisions, actually, the second one on specifying primitives to
> return zero values.

I'm against.  It is not backward compatible in a big way.

> - Zap SET-CAR! & SET-CDR! ?

I'm against.  It is not backward compatible in a big way.

> - Make -> a valid identifier?

I'm all for it, and even more.  But how to specify it, in an easily  
understandable way?

Marc



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