[samth]

There are three ways to think about this.

1. R7RS explicitly decided to repudiate R6RS, leading to the disagreement.

2. R6RS made changes that did not have consensus and the resulting vote didn't have a big enough super majority requirement, leading to a controversial standard.

3. There was always major disagreement about all the relevant points, and R5RS itself was only created by not introducing anything new post 1992, and by not taking a position on the controversial topics. So any standard effort was bound to be controversial.

[pjmlp]

Thanks for clarifying it.