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Re: guile & r5rs


Valentin Kamyshenko wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> I've just read the 5th revision of Scheme standard. At first
> glance, it seems to be, only two features are currently not
> present in guile: multiple return values, and high-level macros
> (let-syntax and friends).
> 
> Both are present in accompanying packages (multiple return values
> are in scsh; with high-level macroses, I have an impression, the
> problem is that there are too many realizations :).
> 
> So, how difficult is it to move all r5rs features to the main
> stream of guile development? Does anybody work on this?

Same thing for the full numeric tower and exactness.
When will Guile follow the numeric standard ? Many people could also
do maths with Guile...

    Jean-Paul Roy