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Many of the differences are a matter of taste.

Precisely! :)

R4RS isn't going away.

But any newcomer will consider the most recent version the default, and assume the others are obsolete. In other languages you seldom ever have a reason to start with an older standard unless you have legacy code to maintain. And that is the reason why they called the whole scam R6RS.




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