Re: R5RS interpreters need not apply?

["Ozan S. Yigit" <oz@sis.yorku.ca>]

> Are the considerations of scheme interpreters no longer relevant to
> the authors?

By "interpreter", I take it you mean something that runs the
input expression directly, rather than preprocessing it into something
lower-level, as is done by many of the implementations such as vscm,
umb-scheme, xscheme, vscm, scheme48, psi, fools etc.

>	  R4RS was implementable in a small, fast program; 

It still is.

>							... The
> macro requirement of R5RS is not.

I personally do not believe that this is true.

oz
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