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??? abstract, preferably shorter than 200 words. Please outline the need for, and design of, the proposal.
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Please include examples. They make it much easier for readers to understand your proposal.
Please follow the linguistic conventions described in the FAQ. In particular, please follow the conventions about the use of the terms must, must not, required, shall, shall not, should, should not, recommended, may, and optional defined by RFC 2119. This convention has been adopted by R7RS Small, too, in section 1.3.2 (PDF).
Also by convention, the phrase it is an error to X is used in Scheme documents to mean that X is not allowed, but to leave it up to the implementer to decide what to do in response. Implementations may signal an error, assign some new meaning to X, or fail catastrophically.
??? explanation of how it meets the sample implementation requirement (see process), and the code, if possible, or a link to it
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