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[Guile-commits] 01/02: Add NEWS for R7RS
From: |
Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
[Guile-commits] 01/02: Add NEWS for R7RS |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:50:10 -0500 (EST) |
wingo pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guile.
commit 2346a540c0a28801d590b2c9fe58cca23a7b9577
Author: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
Date: Sun Nov 17 15:48:43 2019 +0100
Add NEWS for R7RS
* NEWS: Support R7RS.
---
NEWS | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0ec0d83..3f1a4c9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -103,6 +103,18 @@ R6RS-compatible. This procedure is called if the user
passes `--r6rs'
as a command-line argument. See "R6RS Incompatibilities" in the manual,
for full details.
+** Add support for R7RS
+
+Thanks to Göran Weinholt and OKUMURA Yuki, Guile now implements the R7RS
+modules. As the R7RS library syntax is a subset of R6RS, to use R7RS
+you just `(import (scheme base))' and off you go. As with R6RS also,
+there are some small lexical incompatibilities regarding hex escapes;
+see "R6RS Support" in the manual, for full details.
+
+Also as with R6RS, there is an `install-r7rs!' procedure and a `--r7rs'
+command-line option.
+
+
* New deprecations
** The two-argument form of `record-constructor'