Talk:Scheme 48

Doesn't follow R5RS
Seems that Scheme 48 doesn't follow R5RS very well, despite what home page says. F.ex. function  isn't implemented, but instead , and   doesn't return   but  , which, whatever it is, is neither LISP nor Scheme. Said: Rursus ☻ 19:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * As far as I can see,  is not required by R5RS, and even if it were, its omission from Scheme 48 would be a very minor deviation from the standard as it can be trivially defined by  . The result of   is printed as   on the Scheme 48 command line, however,   evaluates to , so Scheme 48 is certainly conforming in that point, too. &mdash;Tobias Bergemann 07:35, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, "first" is not a part of R5RS. Check the index. Also, "'a" is a relatively standard way to print the symbol that is the result of "(car '(a b c))". Clements (talk) 02:02, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Reason for Name
I thought that was once where the name came from, but now it's because it can be understood in 48 hours. Watson Ladd (talk) 12:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

License
I replaced the software infobox license of "BSD"; my mistake was to remove it initially. I attach the authors' COPY file in the source distribution, below. It definitely seems to fall under BSD licenses, as a "3-clause license". --Ds13 (talk) 18:17, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Copyright (c) 1993-2008 Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees All rights reserved.

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