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RFI's



Here's an interesting tidbit from William Clinger's notes from the
Scheme workshop at ICFP'98:

    REPOSITORY FOR PROPOSALS.

    17 people wanted to discuss Alan Bawden's proposal for library
    support primitives, which had more to do with process than with
    technical changes to the language.  Discussion led to a proposal
    to create a World-Wide Web repository for proposals in the form
    of requests for implementations (RFIs).  Creating such a
    repository does not require any changes to the R*RS or IEEE
    standard, so the straw poll was amended to ask how many people
    thought this should be done.  The straw poll was unanimously in
    favor.

I was talking to Olin Shivers about his code, and his reply is the
following.  I don't think we'll have any problem getting the SCSH code
freed.

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 23:27:27 -0400
Message-Id: <199810130327.XAA12478@shivers.ne.mediaone.net>
From: Olin Shivers <shivers@mongkok.ai.mit.edu>
To: jimb@red-bean.com
Subject: Re: Is it just me...
Reply-to: shivers@ai.mit.edu

[...]

   [...] I'm going to make a beta release for Guile 1.3 today.

Great. I've been hacking a bunch of libraries for proposal as RFI's. I now
have a string lib, the ccp lib, a list-processing lib, and the regexp stuff.
I'll propose them all as RFI's as soon as I can. I have reference
implementations for all of these, and I've put the code in the public domain.
I'd love it if you picked them up as guile modules.
    -Olin
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