[Uim] Proposal for SigScheme

[Kazuki Ohta]

Hi, YamaKen.

> I've written a testsuite for the feature as r1145. The proper
> tail recursion is basically works fine. But current SigScheme
> implementaion does not have at least two R5RS compliant
> behavior about the feature. The 'and' and 'or' conditionals is
> not properly tail-recursive (tests for them are provided by
> the file).
> See "3.5 Proper tail recursion" of R5RS and please fix it.
Thank you for writing great test cases!
I'll fix "and" and "or" problem soon.

> As this result indicates, well enough testsuites are required
> to ensure accurate R5RS compliance. Although I wrote this test
> from scratch, writing all other tests from scratch will cost
> you non-creative heavy job.
> So I recommend that importing the testsuites written for other
> R5RS implementations. Searching for them will be efficient
> investment to stabilize SigScheme. Please consider it.
Hmm. OK. I'll try to search R5RS test suites. Thank you for your 
suggestion.

> > Then I'll thinking about implementing the multiple value.
>
> It will make SigScheme feature-frozen for uim 0.6. I'm looking
> forward to SigScheme-based uim with great hope.
>
> > > mover at hct.zaq.ne.jp wrote:
> > > > > I think that implementing the multiple values and
> > > > > proper tail recursion features to port the widely-used
> > > > > SLIB library to SigScheme should take precedence to
> > > > > get SRFI features as first step.
> > > >
> > > > Now, here's simple question.
> > > > What "proper" tail recursion means? You mean tail
> > > > recursion optimization?
> > >
> > > Yes. It's the useful word to indicate the concept.
>
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