Re: X in every language syndrome

On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 01:45:39 -0700, Paul Rubin
<no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> writes:

Prior to R6RS (circa 2007), Scheme did not even have syntax for
specifying or using libraries.  Although a number of implementations
did provide them, there was no "standard" way to do it.

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That is an intentional practice with Scheme, I believe.  They don't like
to standardize stuff until there are implementations out there that
users seem to think are done right.

R_RS documents are not standards per se - they simply describe what is
considered a conforming implementation. 

There are ISO and ANSI standards for Scheme, but they are based on
R3RS, circa ~1990[*]. As far as I'm aware, no other version of scheme
has been the subject of a standard.


[*] The R3RS document is not dated (that I can find), but I was using
an R3RS implementation in grad school in the early 90's.