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Re: portability

To: JMiller%OZ@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: portability
From: willc%tekchips.tek.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA
Date: 04 Jun 86 09:51:03 PDT (Wed)
Cc: RRRS-Authors@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of 4 Jun 1986 08:51-EDT. <[MIT-OZ] 4-Jun-86 08:51:16.JMILLER>

Jim Miller writes:
>I urge you to think, again, about including some formal and
>mutually agreeable statement which limits the implementors choice
>of names for special forms.  I believe that this is the sole
>requirement necessary to permit a person intent on writing a
>totally portable program to succeed.

Suppose every implementation of Scheme were required to supply a
"vanilla" mode in which all reserved words are among those that
appear in the report?

Peace, Will

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