Scheme Requests for Implementation (SRFI) is an effort to coordinate

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programming language, necessitated by Scheme's minimalist design, and particularly the lack of a standard library before Scheme R6RS. SRFI is supported by many Scheme implementations. As such, it is an informal standard.

History

At the Scheme Workshop held in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 26, 1998, the attendees considered several proposals for standardized feature sets to include in Scheme implementations. Alan Bawden proposed that there be a repository for library proposals.

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volunteered to host the library, and Dave Mason and Mike Sperber joined him as initial editors and coordinators of the library process. The term ''Request for Implementation'', a play on the Internet ''

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'', was coined at the workshop, and modified to ''Scheme Request for Implementation'' by the editors. On November 1, 1998, the srfi-discuss mailing list was established which had as subscribers many major implementors of Scheme and other contributors to the language. An archive of the discussion is kept online. The SRFI website, along with the other SRFI procedures was established in late December 1998.

References

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