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Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes: > I assumed that at least the guile core team knew r4rs by heart and > would know why they break with r4rs in certain points. > Alas that seems not to be quite the case ... I'm fairly sure the case-sensitivity thing *was* discussed, and that choosing to deviate from R4RS in this instance was a decision that was consciously made. I don't remember the rationale, however. Aren't there archives of this mailing list somewhere? > I'm missing the procedure (transcript-on logfile) which is described > in the r4rs and would be a useful tool for reporting stuff. Is that > deliberately left out or another bug? Again, that rings a bell. I think it was omitted because it was a bit awkward to implement and didn't seem useful enough to justify the effort. But the discussion was long enough ago that I may well be misrepresenting it completely.