Re: Future of the cookbook

MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-03-26 00:59:33 +0000 Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Most software on Schematics is LGPL and I'm happy to
>> go with that. [...]
> 
> 
> Other authors: are you happy with it?
>

LGPL is fine. Unfortunately, I think we really need to iron out and make 
consistent licensing for Schematics and its derivatives sooner rather 
than later or it will come back to bite. I am certainly willing to 
change/update any embedded license for stuff I've contributed to 
whatever the community agrees on.

>>> 2. What are the "Using PLT Scheme" sections for?
>>
>> Mainly to explain the important differences between
>> PLT Scheme and r5rs Scheme.  E.g. the use of square
>> brackets for visual emphasis.
> 
> 
> Differences PLT-R5RS are probably a book on their own. Square brackets 
> are an abomination not to be encouraged ;-)
>

Even after following the somewhat heated discussion on plt-scheme 
regarding define/let/arg evaluation order I'm pretty confident that PLT 
is a proper superset of R5RS and should be treated as such. That said, 
however, I think that the cookbook should be about developing 
specifically for PLT since it provides a useful environment for building 
  large systems and R5RS IMHO does not. A "cookbook" should contain both 
simple and complex recipes that solve real problems and need to be as 
concrete as possible.

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