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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ first encountering. Or perhaps several of these at once. We hope you will
 already have mastered the skill of leveraged reading: getting what you can out
 of an article you don't fully understand, so that you can discuss it with the rest of
 the group and hopefully get to a point where you can read it again and
-get more out of out. (Rinse and repeat.)
+get more out of. (Rinse and repeat.)
 
 
 ## General issues about variables and binding in programming languages ##
@@ -89,9 +89,13 @@ Revised Revised Report..." and so on, or "The Revised^n Report..." for
 short. One widely implemented standard is [The
 Revised^5 Report on Scheme](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/),
 or R5RS, published in 1998.
-A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) was ratified
-in 2007, but this has many detractors and has not been fully accepted in the
-community. ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
+A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
+was ratified in 2007, and this is implemented in Racket; but it also has many detractors and has not been fully
+accepted in the community. As a result, the Scheme language [may in the future split](http://scheme-reports.org/2009/position-statement.html)
+into a lean, minimal base, closer to
+R5RS Scheme, and a richer language like R6RS Scheme that standardizes many of the add-ons that programmers tend to build
+on top of the base.
+
 *	[Scheme FAQ](http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq)
 *	[Scheme Requests for Implementation](http://srfi.schemers.org/) (SRFI)
 *	The [Schematics Scheme Cookbook](http://schemecookbook.org/) is a collaborative effort to produce documentation and recipes for using Scheme for common tasks.