Return-Path: Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 13:21:01 EST From: Chris Haynes To: ramsdell@linus.mitre.org, jmiller@cs.brandeis.edu, cph@altdorf.ai.mit.edu, scheme-standard@wheaties.ai.mit.edu, scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu, rrrs-authors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Scheme standard approved Reply-To: chaynes@cs.indiana.edu The fifth draft of the "Standard for the Scheme Programming Language," P1178/D5, has been approved by the IEEE Standards Board (subject to resolution of a couple of minor editorial and administrative matters, which will be done in the next few days). The Scheme standard will be available in published form from the IEEE Standards Office (for about $50) in a couple of months or so. I will post exact ordering information at that time. Until then, copies of the draft may be obtained by writing Michael Philips IEEE Standards Office 445 Hoes Lane P.O. Box 1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855 or calling 201-562-3800. The draft costs $27 ($21.60 for IEEE members) and payment may be made by check or credit card. In accordance with IEEE policy, drafts of the standard will no longer be distributed by MIT and Indiana University. The Working Group on Scheme, IEEE/MSC/P1178, now ceases to exist. It will be reconstituted to revise or reaffirm the standard when the need is felt (not more than five years from now). Special acknowledgment is due the standard and ballotting response editors, Chris Hanson, James S. Miller, David H. Bartley, and John D. Ramsdell. The rapid progress of the Scheme standard working group and the quality of the final standard is due in large measure to the efforts of the "Revised^n Report on Scheme" authors and their editors, William Clinger and Jonathan Rees. Christopher Haynes Chair, IEEE Working Group on Scheme chaynes@cs.indiana.edu Computer Science Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405