• SRFI 216: SICP Prerequisites (Portable)

    From Arthur A. Gleckler@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 4 17:19:15 2020
    Scheme Request for Implementation 216,
    "SICP Prerequisites (Portable),"
    by Vladimir Nikishkin,
    is now available for discussion.

    Its draft and an archive of the ongoing discussion are available at <https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-216/>.

    You can join the discussion of the draft by filling out the subscription
    form on that page.

    You can contribute a message to the discussion by sending it to <srfi-216@srfi.schemers.org>.

    Here's the abstract:

    This SRFI follows SRFI 203 in providing "out-of-the-box" support for
    hosting the exercises suggested by Structure and Interpretation of
    Computer Programs in portable Scheme.

    Whereas SRFI 203 focused on the necessarily non-portable aspects of
    the problem set (the graphics), this SRFI aims to provide support for
    the rest of the features, which are far more widespread, often already
    provided, and in reality mostly need just a common vocabulary.

    This SRFI provides subroutines for working with time data,
    multi-threading, streams and SICP names for true and false.

    None of these subroutines are fit for production use, and are only
    designed for pedagogical purposes.

    Students, however, are expected to be able to just write

    (include (srfi sicp))

    and have the code from the book run without problems
    (apart from those intended by the book authors).

    Regards,


    SRFI Editor

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