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Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit: > I want generically-named procedures to do the correct generic thing on > the local system. I want no generically-named procedures mandated by > the standard when they cannot be implemented correctly on a > fancy/schmancy system. There is no "correct generic thing". > Now if you want, as a system implementor, to continue to implement > them, go right ahead. But *please* don't force every Scheme system, > include a fancy/schmancy one, to do so! Fancy systems are precisely the ones that need both "small, fast, and simple" and "large, slow, and complex". (These are relative terms.) -- You let them out again, Old Man Willow! John Cowan What you be a-thinking of? You should not be waking! jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep! www.reutershealth.com Bombadil is talking. www.ccil.org/~cowan