[R6RS] 3 things we may want to vote on

Marc Feeley feeley
Wed Jun 8 11:52:48 EDT 2005


Here are the results of the vote on the following motions:

- Make continuations created by BEGIN accept multiple values

         Clinger: yes
          Dybvig: yes
          Feeley: yes
           Flatt: yes
         Serrano: not sure
         Sperber: yes
    van Straaten: yes

     Action: include this in R6RS.

- Specify primitives to return zero values

         Clinger: no
          Dybvig: not sure
          Feeley: no
           Flatt: no
         Serrano: not sure
         Sperber: yes
    van Straaten: maybe

     Action: The jury is still out.  Dybvig, Serrano and van Straaten  
should vote firmly.

- Zap SET-CAR! & SET-CDR!

         Clinger: yes (if it can be done with the module system)
          Dybvig: not sure
          Feeley: no
           Flatt: no
         Serrano: no
         Sperber: yes
    van Straaten: no

     Action: set-car! and set-cdr! stay as in R5RS.

- Make -> a valid identifier

         Clinger: yes
          Dybvig: yes
          Feeley: yes
           Flatt: yes
         Serrano: yes
         Sperber: yes
    van Straaten: yes

     Action: Someone should work on a new grammar for symbols.

Marc




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