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Re: [EXT] Can guile be implementation independent?
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Keith Wright |
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Re: [EXT] Can guile be implementation independent? |
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Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:03:01 -0500 |
Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com> writes:
> On 17.12.2021 18:05, Thompson, David wrote:
>>
>> I think the shortest and easiest answer to this question,
>> in practice, is "no."
>>
>> I prefer to think of each Scheme implementation as its own distinct
>> language,
I hope not.
> The RnRS have some severe limitations. In all RnRS:
>
> - No TCP/IP
> - No POSIX or Win32
> - No threads
>
> In R7RS-small, and R5RS and earlier:
>
> - No hash tables
> - No sub-typing
Do we recoginize a distinction between core language and libraries?
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
>> I wonder why your releases all seem to target Guile 2
>> Will this also work with Guile 3?
>
> New Stuff gets my attention sooner when it is kind to Old Stuff.
Q: Can portable code be run with Guile?
A: If you have to ask Guile-2 or Guile-3 then you can't do it.
(But TTN might.)
-- Keith
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