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Alfa Male Petrofsky <alfa-male@petrofsky.org> writes: > > From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) > > >>>>> "al" == Alchemy Petrofsky <alchemy@petrofsky.org> writes: > > > > al> As Alex Shinn pointed out, the perl community has had success > > al> without the subnumbers by simply giving out names on a > > al> first-come-first-serve basis, with the editors occasionally > > al> rejecting requests for overly-generic names. That sounds > > al> workable to me, but my proposal is a little easier for the > > al> editors. Presumably, most SRFI authors will choose a unique > > al> name on their own, but if two of them really want just plain > > al> "foo", then they can both have it. > > > > This effectively amounts to assigning a keyword to a SRFI document, > > right? > > I think so, but it depends on precisely what you mean by "assigning a > keyword". I think the shortnames proposal I made in my first message > was pretty specific, so I hope that reviewing that message will enable > you to answer whether or not this is equivalent to assigning a > keyword. I think that again we have two sepearate discussions taking place here. There is a desire for a non-numerical scheme for assigning feature identifiers associated with SRFIs 0 & 7, and there is a need for a document reference standard. It is not clear to me that the second problem requires any solution. The first problem lies in a grey area and it may be convenient for the SRFI process to address it at some point. However, I also would prefer that the SRFI process not become a mmethod of canonicalizing extensions to Scheme. I thought it was supposed to be a feeder process for RnRS. Personally, I am not dissatisfied with using (essentially) numerical feature identifiers. In some ways I prefer them because it leaves room for me to associate my own feature identifiers with user libraries. david rush -- Scheme: Because pure lambda calculus gets tedious after a while. -- Anton van Straaten (the Scheme Marketing Dept from c.l.s)