; We could have designed a machine-readable mail-in voter registration
; form by making up a completely new syntax, but since everybody
; registering to vote is familiar with Scheme, we are going to use
; S-expressions.

; A completed voter registration form is a list of two element lists.
; The CAR of each sub-list is a keyword symbol, and the CADR is a
; value string.  In other words, a voter registration form is an
; A-list.  See the example below.

; Elements with the keywords `email-address', `full-name',
; `geographic-location' and `statement-of-interest' must appear.
; Other optional keywords are noted in the example below.

; Prepare your registration form using R5RS syntax only, as we will be
; using an R5RS compliant Scheme to process it.  Note that this
; effectively limits you to the basic ASCII character set.  (In fact,
; R5RS does not even specify the effect of line breaks in strings --
; but we will promise you that line breaks will be treated as some
; form of whitespace.)

; Mail your completed voter registration form to:
; voter-registration@r6rs.org.  Your message text should be formatted
; so that we can extract the registration form from your message body
; with a single call to READ.  (In particular you needn't worry about
; unparsable text that appears -after- the registration form -- we
; won't get tripped up by your signature.)

; Send us your registration form in a plain text message.  Avoid using
; multipart MIME format if you can help it.  If your message contains
; nothing but HTML we will refuse it.

; Here is a sample registration form.  Obviously you should replace
; the example values with your own...
(
 ;; The email address supplied here will be used for all future
 ;; correspondence with you, but it will not be published:
 (email-address "fred@example.org")

 ;; Your full name:
 (full-name "Fred Derf")

 ;; Your country, region, city, etc.:
 (geographic-location "Philadelphia, PA, USA")

 ;; The next three entries are optional.  You may comment out (or
 ;; delete) any of them that you do not wish to supply.  The
 ;; public-email-address will be published, so we won't be able to
 ;; stop spammers from harvesting it.
 (affiliation "The Knights Who Say \"Ni!\"")
 (public-email-address "fred@example.org")
 (web-page-url "http://www.example.org/~fred/")

 ;; Please supply a statement declaring what your stake is in the
 ;; outcome of the Scheme standardization process.  Your statement
 ;; must be original, IT MUST BE AT LEAST 150 WORDS LONG, and it must
 ;; actually address the question of what your interest is in the
 ;; Scheme standard.  Be aware that we will read your statement, and
 ;; if we think you have seriously missed the mark, we will ask you to
 ;; submit another one.  It is not our intent to run an essay
 ;; competition here, we are just looking for evidence that you're
 ;; taking this seriously.  (On the other hand, what you write here
 ;; will become part of the permanent record of the Scheme language,
 ;; so this really would be a excellent place to pull out your best
 ;; argument for why Scheme is important!)  Note that the example text
 ;; below is both unoriginal, and too short.
 (statement-of-interest
  "Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on
top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that
make additional features appear necessary.  Scheme demonstrates that a
very small number of rules for forming expressions, with no
restrictions on how they are composed, suffice to form a practical and
efficient programming language that is flexible enough to support most
of the major programming paradigms in use today."))

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