Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Subject: Re: Logical operations on integers. Message-ID: <1991Apr8.181518.23292@cs.ubc.ca> Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology References: <1212@argosy.UUCP> Distribution: comp Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 18:15:18 GMT Listening to this discussion of what to call logand gave me a thought: why not set up some sort of central registry of extensions? This registry could be organized as a file of entries, in the same format as R^nRS. The first person to design a particular extension would then document it in entry format, and submit it to the registry. Other implementors could then look at the registry, and implement those extensions they find to their taste. There would be no connotation of compliance in the registry; implementors would be free to select or reject, or even to change as they see fit, any specification they find therein. However, it would ensure that people didn't simply invent new syntax for things capriciously. Am I being hopelessly idealistic? -- \ Vincent Manis "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394