[R6RS] shall versus must

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Fri Sep 1 02:00:21 EDT 2006


Anton van Straaten <anton at appsolutions.com> writes:

>> Okay, thanks.  But if you prefer "must", and I prefer "must", and no one
>> else objects, can we not use "must" and insert a note into the terminology
>> section to the effect that "must" is used in the normative sense?
>
> I'll second that.  I also prefer "must".

The change back from "shall" to "must" would be trivial to make, as
"shall" was hardly used in the original.  However, the other direction
would be harder.  I'll do it this afternoon at, say, 10AM EST, unless
somebody objects.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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