Scheme - It's official

Author

It's official

Lauri Alanko

2007-08-29, 4:32 am

Strangely enough, no announcements on the list or here in the news,
but www.r6rs.org has been updated with the following announcement:

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Ratification Results

According to the Scheme Charter, at the end of the review process, the
Steering Committee could choose either to finalize the submitted draft
or to restart the review process. In order to be sure that the new
revised Scheme standard enjoyed wide support among the Scheme
community, the Steering Committee adopted a procedure in which there
would be a vote on the question of whether the draft should be
ratified, and they agreed to be bound by the results of that vote.

112 people registered to vote on the question. 102 of those electors
cast their ballots before the poll closed on 12 August 2007. 67
electors voted to ratify draft 5.97 as R6RS. 35 electors were opposed
to ratification. Thus 65.7% of those who voted, voted in favor of
ratification. This is more than the 60% required for ratification.

The Steering Committee therefore ratifies the draft numbered 5.97 as
the official "Revised6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme". The
Editors are directed to prepare the final text of the document,
correcting only minor errata.

The final record of the ratification vote can be found at
http://www.r6rs.org/ratification/results.html. (Additional
correspondence received after the poll closed will be published
separately.)

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So there you go. No more excuses not to start working on a successor. :)

Lauri

Nils M Holm

2007-08-29, 4:32 am

Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> wrote:
> Strangely enough, no announcements on the list or here in the news,
> but www.r6rs.org has been updated with the following announcement:
>
> [R6RS ratified]
>
> So there you go. No more excuses not to start working on a successor. :)

Indeed. I am glad it is over and I am even glad that R5.97RS does
not go back to the drawing board. It is broken beyond repair. Now
let us go ahead and develop something better.

--
Nils M Holm <n m h @ t 3 x . o r g> -- http://t3x.org/nmh/

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