From: Jim Pryor Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:25:58 +0000 (-0400) Subject: more comments about r5rs/current X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3149593d3e7f4c0265cc7eafe823e17faf31b9ed more comments about r5rs/current Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- diff --git a/offsite_reading.mdwn b/offsite_reading.mdwn index 945670ed..d4b71012 100644 --- a/offsite_reading.mdwn +++ b/offsite_reading.mdwn @@ -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.