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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes: >> From: Richard Kelsey <kelsey@xxxxxxx> >> I can understand wanting the first FFI SRFI being a safer, more >> general one, perhaps based on JNI or Pika. This SRFI isn't that >> SRFI because that isn't the type of FFI that Mike and I needed. Tom> In off-list conversations about SRFI-50, that paragraph has raised a Tom> few hackles. [...] You're misinterpreting what Richard wrote. He's explaining the *history* of the draft, not the rationale for the future, which Richard, I, and you don't know yet. In your response, you changed all occurrences of "need" to the present tense (note the past tense above) which, urmh, changes the semantics to something that raises a few hackles with me. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla