[Junta] Creation of ERR5RS project spaces

Harold Ancell hga at ancell-ent.com
Sat Sep 8 14:29:35 PDT 2007


At 03:49 PM 9/8/2007, Terrence Brannon wrote:
>On 9/2/07, David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As announced yesterday, the Extended Range R5RS proposal has now been
>> promoted to project status. All the pages of which I am aware have
>> been moved to names beginning with 'ERR5RS:'
>
>Forgive me for what might seem a picky comment, but do you realize
>that ERR5RS is only 1 character substitution from ERRORS?

This is entirely deliberate and makes it dead simple for poor
spellers like myself to get it right (almost) every time.

See

http://scheme-punks.org/wiki/index.php?title=ERR5RS:Acronym

or http://tinyurl.com/25kqbe

and it's discussion page for more.

>Maybe you could call it XR5RS?

That or something like it was among the proposals.  But....

When you get down to it, ERR5RS is not, cannot, be an "ultimate"
Scheme, it's just the best compromise Will or anyone else has
thought of to mitigate the nasty schism in the community.

                                        - Harold




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