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Per Bothner wrote: > Of course the SRFI processes *allows* duplicate "standards", > but clearly that should be undesirable, except in the case of > documenting existing practice. That is not the case with > SRFI-64 vs -78, as far as I know. Well, there are many reasons to have duplicate standards, including fundamentally incompatible designs, and arguably a certain amount of healthy competition among SRFIs is a good thing. On the other hand, it's not clear to me what the purpose of SRFI-78 is as opposed to SRFI-64. It claims to be lightweight yet adds a CHECK-EC form, which is unnecessary, pulls in a requirement for SRFI-42, and doesn't seem to offer much more than running tests inside an existing comprehension available once you are using SRFI-42. In exchange it removes any handling of exceptions, which seems to be rather crippling for a test SRFI. One might argue that the groups and filtering capabilities of SRFI-64 are heavy, and thus desire a trimmed down version, but in that case it would be nice to use a compatible subset, as in the formatting SRFIs 28 and 48. You could even participate in the ongoing SRFI-64 discussion where the author has indeed been very receptive to suggestions. -- Alex