From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: Arvydas Silanskas <nma.arvydas.silanskas@gmail.com>
Cc: kawa mailing list <kawa@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Time for a new release? 3.1.2?
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:34:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0d4768d-db63-f9b5-d3f4-bfb54c870c6e@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPh7weCYBBZhC4nX+vbNJJrQrA4DbBo8LRvHHOVupyxWDxENNA@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/6/22 01:07, Arvydas Silanskas wrote:
> I'd like to bump a question, would we want to add (for the time being considering only red and tangerine) R7RS-large support? I'm fine with doing necessary work as far as human resources go, but I want to know that this is a direction that people agree with.
I think the R7RS-large process is off-track, and is unlikely to reach any useful destination
without a fundamental course-correction. Piling on more and more different-but-similar
libraries is not the way to do a programming language in the 21st century. Even Common Lisp
realized that different differently-named functions for every useful data-type is not
good language design.
Scheme needs some way to define "interfaces"/"traits" that multiple data-types
can implement. Many Scheme implementations (including Kawa) have that, but a
general portable solution is highly desired. Without that, there is no point
in piling on more and more libraries for more and more data types.
I am not the only one who feels this way, as you can see from the SRFI/R7RS mailing lists.
--
--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-05 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-28 17:53 Duncan Mak
2022-09-29 4:38 ` Per Bothner
2022-09-29 15:18 ` Arvydas Silanskas
2022-10-03 11:36 ` Arvydas Silanskas
2022-10-21 9:01 ` Arvydas Silanskas
2022-10-27 4:50 ` Shawn Wagner
2022-12-06 9:07 ` Arvydas Silanskas
2023-01-05 21:34 ` Per Bothner [this message]
2023-01-05 22:02 ` Damien Mattei
2023-01-06 12:16 ` Lassi Kortela
2023-01-08 18:11 ` Sascha Ziemann
2023-01-09 9:03 ` Lassi Kortela
2023-01-09 9:42 ` Arvydas Silanskas
2023-01-09 10:51 ` Lassi Kortela
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