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The Community Scheme Wiki

is about anything even remotely related to the programming language Scheme

It is a great site with high quality posts, definitely worth your time.

R6RS is an experiment to address programming language features that people need “in the large”. The keyword in there is “experiment”.

It could fail miserably. It could succeed beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. Whatever the case, one of the creative sparks that makes Scheme great is the spirit of innovation. R6RS is trying something very new and innovative in the Scheme community. If it is not the right fit, it will be corrected in R7RS; no harm, no foul.

Today I ended up reading a particular post over at Black Grit, Inc. about their CafePress storefront.

Since mzscheme supports unicode, I would’ve done it like this (in R5RS code):

(define ♥
  (lambda xs
    (begin
      (display "I ♥ ")
      (let loop ((xs xs))
        (display (car xs))
        (if (not (null? (cdr xs)))
            (begin
              (display " ")
              (display "and ")
              (loop (cdr xs))))))))

so that you could write:

(♥ ’scheme)

Scheme is Deceptively Simple

LilyPond is a music notation that uses Scheme.