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--- "Schol-R-LEA;2" <scholr1@comcast.net> wrote: My 2p below... > To start with, I was wondering if there was a general > consensus as to what > sort of things would and would not be suitable for > defining in an SRFI. I think just about anything is appropriate. If others may benefit from it, it is suitable for a SRFI. > To what extent is elegance and appropriate style and > idioms important? Reasonably important. If you want a language with every crap idea under the sun there is Perl... *duck* (Perl isn't THAT bad but it makes an easy target) > Do SRFIs have a political or proselyting role Of course. It may not be official but they certainly have influence. > For example, suppose I were to propose (as I may well do, > if it is suitable) an SRFI for a simple collection of > iterators and conditional forms along the following lines: I have little need for these (except maybe when and unless) and find some of them distasteful but if there is a reasonable justification you could propose it. Many found the generic SRFI (17?) distasteful but it got finalised none the less. > would it be seen as valid to > offer a common 'wrapper' interface for FFI forms... An > object system... A standard > set of OpenGL bindings? These all seem useful to me. I'll let others answer your remaining questions. HTH, Noel ===== Email: noelwelsh <at> yahoo <dot> com AIM: noelhwelsh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail