Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Moerner <dmoer...@gmail.com>
Package name : r6rs-doc Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Michael Sperber, et al URL : http://www.r6rs.org/ License : We intend this report to belong to the entire Scheme community, and so we grant permission to copy it in whole or in part without fee. In particular, we encourage implementors of Scheme to use this report as a starting point for manuals and other documentation, modifying it as necessary. Programming Lang: HTML and PDF for docs, Scheme for examples Description : Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme This package contains the four parts of the R6RS report in both PDF and HTML format. These parts are defined as follows: .. r6rs: The report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including functional, imperative, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme. .. r6rs-lib: The report gives a defining description of the standard libraries of the programming language Scheme. .. r6rs-app: This document contains non-normative appendices to the Revised6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. These appendices contain advice for users and suggestions for implementors on issues not fit for standardization, in particular on platform-specific issues. .. r6rs-rationale: This document describes rationales for some of the design decisions behind the Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. The focus is on changes made since the last revision on the report. Moreover, numerous fundamental design decisions of Scheme are explained. This report also contains some historical notes. Chris: I have CC'd you on this ITP because you maintain r5rs-doc. I sent you an email about a week ago about the possibility of making r6rs-doc a separate package because it is such a radical departure from previous Scheme reports, with the specification of a standard library. Also, the fact that several implementors, including mit-scheme, gambit, chicken, and bigloo, don't intend to support r6rs suggests that both r5rs and r6rs should be in Debian concurrently. I welcome any thoughts you have about the matter. Regards, Daniel Moerner -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
