[ERR5RS] Rationale and ease of use

[Lynn Winebarger]

On 9/4/07, William Clinger <cesura17 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lynn Winebarger wrote:
> >      If this is correct, could you (Andre, Will, or
> > both) provide a single coherent explanation of why
> > the separated binding are the better semantics?
>
> You can construct examples for which separated
> binding is the better semantics, and you can also
> construct examples for which it is the worse
> semantics.  In the R6RS editors' email discussion
> (which I haven't had time to put into searchable
> form since it were made public, or I would cite
> the URL), I suggested that R6RS programmers should
> be allowed to specify which semantics is used for
> each library.  That went nowhere.
>
I believe the message you're referring to is
http://www.r6rs.org/r6rs-editors/2006-November/001916.html

Lynn